[Footnote 115: According to Omaha tradition, two buffalo gentes are of subaquatic origin. See Om. Soc., pp. 231-233.] [Footnote 116: From an unpublished text of Bushotter.] [Footnote 117: The Thunderers in the Omaha myth have hair of different colors. One has white hair, the second has yellow, the third, bright red, and the fourth, green hair. See Contr. N. A. Eth., vol. VI, p. 187.] [Footnote 118: Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 2, 41-42.] [Footnote 119: Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 3, p. 43. Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, pp. 62-64.] [Footnote 120: Missions and Missionaries, p. 143.] [Footnote 121: Smet. op. cit., p. 134.] [Footnote 122: Maximilian, Travels in North America, p. 197.] [Footnote 123: Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, pp. 69, 70.] [Footnote 124: Rev. E. Ashley, MS. letter to Dorsey, March 24, 1884.] [Footnote 125: Riggs, in Am. Antiq., vol. II, No. 4, p. 270.] [Footnote 126: Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt 3, p. 53.] [Footnote 127: Ibid., pt. 2, p. 73.] [Footnote 128: Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, pp. 70, 71.] [Footnote 129: Am. Antiq., Vol. II, No. 4, p. 270.] [Footnote 130: Riggs in Am. Antiq., Vol. II, p. 268.] [Footnote 131: Mourning and War Customs of the Kansas, in Am. Naturalist, July, 1885, pp. 676, 677.] [Footnote 132: That is, the Takuśkaŋśkaŋ.] [Footnote 133: Geikie, in his Hours with the Bible (New York: James Pott. 1881), Vol. I, p. 55, has the following quotation from Das Buch Henoch, edited by Dillmann, Kap. 17, 18: “And I saw the cornerstone of the earth and the four winds which bear up the earth, and the firmament of heaven.”] [Footnote 134: Note that both the Takuśkaŋśkaŋ, the “Something that Moves,” and the Wakiŋyaŋ or the Thunder-beings, are associated with war.--J. O. D.] [Footnote 135: Rept. Peabody Museum, Vol. III, p. 289, and note 1. The use of the number twelve in connection with the ceremony of the Four Winds finds a counterpart in the Osage initiation of a female into the secret society of the tribe; the Osage female is rubbed from head to foot, thrice in front, thrice on each side, and thrice behind, with cedar needles.--J. O. D.] [Footnote 136: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 3, p. 44.] [Footnote 137: Op. cit., p. 136.] [Footnote 138: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 3, p. 71.] [Footnote 139: Ibid., p. 79.] [Footnote 140: Ibid., p. 81.] [Footnote 141: Ibid., p. 84.] [Footnote 142: Am. Antiq., vol. II, p. 268.] [Footnote 143: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 1, pp. 55.] [Footnote 144: Hovey on “Eyah Shah” in Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Proc., vol. XXXIV, Buffalo Meeting, 1886. Salem, 1887, p. 332. Also in Am. Antiq., Jan., 1887, pp. 35, 36.] [Footnote 145: Mr. Hovey appears ignorant of the fact that the Kapoźa (“Kaposias”) are a division of the Mdewakantonwan. The latter had six other divisions or gentes.] [Footnote 146: Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, p. 69.] [Footnote 147: Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 138.]