A specific form related to the generic one just described is shown in Fig. 163. The blackened part of the tent represents the night, and the star denotes the morning star. There was a star on the left hand at the back of the tent, and another star on the right side. Black and blue are occasionally interchangeable in Omaha symbolism; hence we find that the night is represented by a blue band on a coyote skin worn by the elder Aⁿpaⁿ-skă, and subsequently by his son and namesake, when the latter was a small boy. The blue band was worn next the shoulders of the owner (Fig. 164). [Illustration: FIG. 163.--Tent of Aⁿpaⁿ-skă, Sr.] [Illustration: FIG. 164.--Robe of Aⁿpaⁿ-skă, Sr.] The decoration refers to his “qube” or “sacred vision.” Little Cedar, of the Maⁿȼiñka-gaxe (Omaha) gens, belonged, we are told, to the Miⁿ iȼa‘eȼĕ-ma, or order of Sun and Moon shamans, probably identical with the order of Thunder shamans. Fig. 165 represents a vision which Little Cedar once had, described thus by George Miller: Gaⁿ´ níaciⁿga aká íȼa‘eȼá-bi egaⁿ´ ȼetégaⁿ ʇi ugá tĕ And man the having had a vision, like this tent painted the sub. they say std. ob. ugȼiⁿ´-biamá. Mázi-jiñ´ga ijáje aȼiⁿ´-biamá. Sábe tĕ haⁿ´ he dwelt in, Cedar Little his name had, they Black the night they say, say kĕ é gáxai; niaⁿ´ba ȼaⁿ éȼaⁿbe tĕ gáxai. Niaⁿ´ba the that made moon the cv. emerging the made. Moon lg. ob. ob. uȼan´da ȼan´di níkaciⁿga ugȼiⁿ´ gáxai, gañ´ʞĭ íȼa‘eȼaí ȼiñké in the in the person sitting made and one seen in the one midst of part in a vision who é tĕ. Niaⁿ´ba éȼaⁿbe atí-nandi náqȼiⁿ that the Moon emerging comes regularly, blazes when (sends up light) égaⁿ-naⁿ´i. The black band refers to the night; the circle, to somewhat usually. the moon; the circumscribed figure is a ghost that he saw in the moon; and the dots above the moon refer to the “white which stands above the rising sun or moon.” Pl. XLIV B shows another tent decoration of the same man. The red circle represents the sun, in which stands a man holding the ʇa-cá-ge, or deer rattles, made of the hard or callous knobs found near the hoofs of the deer. These knobs are split, hollowed out, and strung on sticks. The tent being very large, the figure of the man was almost life size, and a real feather was tied to his head. The blue band at the bottom may represent night, but there is no certainty about it. [Illustration: FIG. 165.--Tent of Mazi-jiñga--ghost vision.] [Illustration: FIG. 166.--A tent of Nikuȼibȼaⁿ.]