A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544Dorsey, James Owen
Religion
A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544
Dorsey, James Owen
Siouan Indians -- Religion
akádi ʇí ugaí, niníba íʇi. Kĭ wédajĭ-ma
among tent they pipe painted the And those elsewhere
the paint tent with
wédahaⁿ-májĭ, añ´ka-bájĭ ebȼégaⁿ. Iñké-sabĕ akádi
I do not know them they are not so I think. Black shoulder among
the
níkagáhi aká égaⁿ gáxai ebȼégaⁿ, aⁿ´ctĕwaⁿ´ gáxa-bájĭ
chief the sub. so made I think of any pattern he did not make
ebȼégaⁿ. Niníba waqúbe gáxai ʞĭ, niníba jaⁿ´ kĕ bȼáska gáxai,
I think. Pipe mysterious made when pipe wood the flat made
thing lg. ob.
uȼískai, wajiñ´gadá ájii tĕ, ʇáhiⁿ jíde
put porcupine bird heads put many the “deer fur” red
work around it on it past act
íkaⁿtaⁿ´i.”
tied to it.
That is, “Those persons who belong to the Iñke-sabĕ sub-gens known
as Keepers of the Pipes, paint their tent(s) with the pipe decoration.
I do not know of any other persons, members of other gentes, using this
decoration; I think that no others use it. I think that the Iñkesabĕ
chief decorates his tent in this manner, and that he did not decorate
it in any way he pleased. When the sacred pipes were made (on the tent)
the pipestem was made flat, porcupine work was put around it, several
heads of birds were fastened on it, and tufts of reddened horses’ hair
were tied to it at intervals.” (See Fig. 184 and Pl. XLIV, C.) This
Iñke-sabĕ tent had only two pipes on it--one on each side of the
entrance.
[Illustration: FIG. 184.--Iñke-sabĕ tent decoration.]
The second Iñke-sabĕ tent decoration is thus described by the same
authority:
Aⁿjiñ´ga tĕ´di ʇi´-ugȼiⁿ´ waʇaⁿ´be ʞĭ, ȼekégaⁿ
The small when tent dwelt in I saw them when like this
lg. ob.
ugȼiⁿ´i. Niníba mácaⁿ ugȼé íʇi waʇaⁿ´be Niníba t‘aⁿ´
they dwelt Pipe quill attached painted I saw Pipe had
in feather to at the tent
right with
angles
akádi, Waqága égaⁿ íʇi waʇaⁿ´be. Niníba waqúbe kĕ
among Burrs so painted I saw them Pipe sacred the lg.
the the tent ob.
with
ékigaⁿ´qti ȼaⁿ´ja, e mácaⁿ ugȼé gáxai, niníba
just like it though that quill attached to made pipe
feather at right angles
wéawaⁿ akéĕ hă. Ȼaⁿ´ja niníba kĕ é ínikagáhi
calumet that is it . Though pipe the lg. that chief by
ob. aforesaid means of it
ʞiʞáxai, níaciⁿ´ga amá átaqti gáxai niníba waqúbe.
they make people the pl. exceedingly make it pipe sacred
themselves sub.
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