[Footnote 176: Cont. N.A. Ethnol., vol. VI, pp. 207-219.] [Footnote 177: Translated from the original MS. in the Bushotter collection. Tuki is the Teton name for a univalve shellfish said to come from the Great Lakes.] [Footnote 178: Tah-koo Wah-kon, p. 71.] [Footnote 179: Osage Traditions, in 6th An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 379, 380. Am. Naturalist, February, 1884, pp. 113, 114, 133. Ibid, July, 1885, p. 671, Om. Soc., in 3d An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 228, 233, 244, 247.] [Footnote 180: Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, p. 264. Note how in the sun dance the sun, the four winds, and the buffalo are referred to (§§ 147, 164, 167, 173, and 181, and Pl. XLVIII), and ceremonies are performed connected with the earth, such as mellowing the earth (§§ 146, 155, and 176) and the “Uuȼita,” in which they shoot into the ground (§ 170).] [Footnote 181: Op. cit., p. 297.] [Footnote 182: Op. cit., p. 282, note.] [Footnote 183: Smet, Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 139.] [Footnote 184: Smet, Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 140.] [Footnote 185: See Ghost Lore, § 280.] [Footnote 186: Miss Fletcher, Elk Mystery of the Ogalalla Sioux, in Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, p. 281, note.] [Footnote 187: Contr. to N. A. Ethn., vol. IX, Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1893. pp. 131, 141, 144, 148.] [Footnote 188: Lewis and Clarke, Expedition, ed. Allen, Dublin, 1817, vol. I, pp. 65, 66.] [Footnote 189: See “Calumet Dance,” in Om. Sociology, 3d Am. Rept. Bur. Ethn., p .280.] [Footnote 190: Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Montreal meeting, 1882, p. 583.] [Footnote 191: Skiff Voy. to Falls of St. Anthony, in Minn. Hist. Coll., II, pt. 1, pp. 18-19.] [Footnote 192: Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, pp. 277, 278.] [Footnote 193: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, pp. 68, 80.] [Footnote 194: A similar belief has been held by the Athapascans now on the Siletz reservation, Oregon. This has been published by the author in The American Anthropologist for January, 1889, p. 60.] [Footnote 195: Smet, Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 142.] [Footnote 196: Maximilian, Travels in North America, p. 197.] [Footnote 197: Read in this connection the article by Miss Fletcher on “The Shadow; or, Ghost Lodge: a Ceremony of the Ogallala Sioux,” Rept. of Peabody Museum, vol. II, pp. 296, 307.] [Footnote 198: These things are probably given by the kindred of the deceased, but Bushotter has not so informed us.] [Footnote 199: In one of his papers Bushotter says that it is the mother of the deceased person who deposits the food under the scaffold and utters the prayers. John Bruyier, a half-blood Teton from Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, never heard the petition about the horses, for if parents obtained horses after the death of their son, they gave them away.] [Footnote 200: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, p. 69.] [Footnote 201: Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 140.]