Osage Traditions | Page 2

they met a male red bird, to whom they appealed for aid. (See p. 383, line 18.) This was distinct from the female Red Bird, who gave them human bodies. They descended to the first world, and from that they traveled until they alighted on the red oak tree. (See p. 383, line 30.) The ground was covered with grass and other kinds of vegetation. Then the paths of the people separated: some marched on the left, being the peace gentes that could not take life; they subsisted on roots &c.; while those on the right killed animals. By and by the gentes exchanged commodities.
The small figures on the left, in going from the tree (on the right when facing the tree), show the heavenly bodies or beings to whom the Black Bear went for help, and those on the right, in going from the tree (on the left when facing the top of the chart), show similar bodies or beings to whom the Wa{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}a{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}e or war gentes applied for assistance. These are unknown to the members of the Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u gentes. After the female red bird gave bodies to the Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u people, the Black Bear found seven skins, which were used for tents. Subsequently the people discovered four kinds of rocks, which were the In'qe sá*d*e, or black rock; In'qe tuhu,(1) or blue (green?) rock; In'qe {~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}ü{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}se, or red rock; and In'qe ska, or white rock. Therefore, when a child is named, four stones are heated for the sweat bath. After finding the rocks, according to {~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}ahi{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}e-wa{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}ayi?{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}a, four buffalo bulls approached the people, as one of the men was returning to the company. When the first bull arose after rolling on the ground, an ear of red corn and a red pumpkin fell from his left hind leg. The leader of the Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u wactá{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}e noticed them, and asked his younger brother to pick them up and taste them. The leader of the Bald Eagle subgens did so. Then the elder brother said: "These will be good for the children to eat. Their limbs will stretch and increase in strength." When the second bull arose after rolling, an ear of spotted corn and a spotted pumpkin dropped from his left hind leg. These, too, were tasted and declared good for the children. When the third bull arose after rolling, an ear of dark corn and a dark (black?) pumpkin dropped from his left hind leg. From the left hind leg of the fourth buffalo dropped an ear of white corn and a white pumpkin. Therefore, when a child is named in the Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u gens (alone?) the head man of that gens ({~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}ahi{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}e-wa{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}ayi?{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}a himself, according to his statement) takes a grain of each kind of corn and a slice of each variety of pumpkin, which he puts into the mouth of the infant. Ha*d*a-{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}ü{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}se knew that the four kinds of rocks were found, "but he could not say in what part of the tradition the account belonged. He said that subsequently the Wa{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}a{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}e and Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u gentes came to the village of the Ha?'{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}a-utá￠an{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}se, a very war-like people, who then inhabited earth lodges. They subsisted on animals, and bodies of all kinds lay around their village, making the air very offensive. The Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u succeeded at last in making peace with the Ha?'{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}a-utá￠an{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}se. After this followed the part of the account given to the author by {~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}ahi{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}e-wa{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}ayi?{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}a:
"After the council between the Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u, Wa{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}a{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}e, and Ha?'{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}a-utá￠an{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}se, two old men were sent off to seek a country in which all might dwell. One of these was a Tsí{~LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O~}u wactá{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}e and the other a Pan{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H~}ka-wactá{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K~}e. Each man received a pipe from the council and was told to go for seven days without food or drink. He carried a staff to aid him in walking. Three times a day he wept, in the morning, at noon, and near