That is, “I myself did not see him, but I have heard what was told. They say that he had a vision of the Thunder-being, so he made that rainbow which appears in the figure (Fig. 167). The old woman, his widow, has told that he painted the top of the tent, near the smoke-hole, in spots. They say that he said that the Thunder-being had carried him up on high, and that the place there resembled this world. The man was regarded as very mysterious; therefore he decorated his tent according to the pattern that he wished to make. The painted spots represent hail.” Many years ago, Nikuȼibȼaⁿ said that he had been carried up into the world above this one, and that he found it resembled the world in which we live. The rainbow and hail depicted on the tent formed part of the vision, but their exact significance has not been explained. [Illustration: FIG. 167.--Another tent of Nikuȼibȼaⁿ.] [Illustration: FIG. 168.--Blanket of Cuʞa-maⁿȼiⁿ.] Cu-ʞa maⁿ-ȼiⁿ, an Omaha, had a vision which gave him the right to use the decoration given in Fig. 168. The meanings of the different marks have not been learned. Cuʞa maⁿȼiⁿ bequeathed the blanket to his son, [K]axe-giaⁿ (Flying Crow), now known as Gilbert Morris. [Illustration: FIG. 169.--Tent of ┴e-saⁿ; vision of a cedar.] [Illustration: FIG. 170.--Tent of ┴e-saⁿ; sun and rainbow vision.] § 48. The old chief ┴e-saⁿ (Ta sone of Maj. Long), Distant-white Buffalo, father of the chiefs Standing Hawk and Fire Chief, had a vision of a cedar tree, which he painted on each side of his tent, as seen in Fig. 169. The next sketch (Fig. 170) shows the back part of another tent of ┴e-saⁿ. The blue band near the top is called “sabe” (black); below this is the sun and a blue rainbow; near the bottom are two horsetails. The only decorations on the front of the tent are two horsetails, one on each side of the entrance. This tent was used by Standing Hawk after the death of his father. This decoration may have been made after a vision of horses, as Standing Hawk was a member of the order of Horse Shamans (Cañge iȼa‘eȼĕ-ma). George Miller speaks thus about it: Gaⁿ´ níaciⁿga aká níkagahí átai egaⁿ´ íȼa‘éȼĕ daⁿ´etĕaⁿ´i And man the sub. chief he was as he had a perhaps beyond vision tĕ, miⁿ´ ȼaⁿ ugaí, íʇi. Cĭ cañ´gĕ sĭn´de the (past sun the he painted he painted the Again horse tail act) cv. ob. tent with it. ctĭ gáxai, hidé kĕ´di. ┴íhuʞaⁿ [p]así ȼaⁿ too he made bottom at the Smoke hole tip end the part sábĕȼai. That is, “As the man was a head chief, he may have had a he blackened. vision, for he occupied a tent on which he painted the sun, and he also decorated it with horse-tails at the lower part. He painted the border of the smoke-hole a dark blue (ʇu sabĕ, which is some-times called, sabĕ).”