Níaciⁿ´ga amá píäjĭ´qti ctéctĕwaⁿ´, ukít‘ĕ ákikiȼáqti People the pl. very bad notwithstanding foreign contending sub. nation fiercely together maⁿȼiⁿ´i ctéctĕwaⁿ´, kikídĕqti maⁿȼiⁿ´i ctéctĕwaⁿ´, they walk notwithstanding shooting often they walk notwithstanding and fiercely niníba kĕ éȼaⁿbe aȼiⁿ´ ahíi ʞĭ, uȼúci kĕ uhá pipe the lg. coming they take it when in the the following ob. forth thither middle lg. its course line aȼiⁿ´ aȼai´ ʞĭ, múkictaⁿ tai´. Téqi gáxai níaciⁿ´ga they when they stop will Precious they people take it shooting at make it one another amá. the pl. sub. That is, “When, in my childhood, I saw the tents in which the people dwelt, they were of this sort. (See Fig. 185.) I saw the tent decorated with the pipes having feathers attached to each pipe at right angles. I saw a tent of this sort when it was occupied by Waqaga of the Pipe sub-gens. (See another tent decoration of this man, § 48.) Though these pipes closely resemble the peace pipes (niniba waqube), they are made with the feathers attached to the stems at right angles. These are the pipes used in the pipe dance. By means of the pipes the people made for themselves that which was equivalent to (or, lead to) the chieftainship. So they regarded the sacred pipes as of the greatest importance. Even when the people were very bad, even when different tribes continued to struggle with one another; even when they shot often at one another, when some persons came forth with the peace pipes, and bore them to a place between the opposing forces, carrying them all along the lines, they stopped shooting at one another. The Indians regarded the pipes as precious.” [Illustration: FIG. 185.--Iñke-sabĕ tent decoration.] A ┴a[p]a nikie tent decoration is shown in the tent of Heqaga. (Pl. XLIV, C.) This tent had two pipes on each side of the tent, double the number on the Iñke-sabĕ tent (Fig. 184). [Illustration: FIG. 186.--Waqaga’s robe.] Fig. 186 is given as the nikie decoration of a robe belonging to Waqaga. The bird on the robe is an eagle. Members of the Pipe sub-gens of the Iñke-sabĕ have eagle birth names. And we know that Waqaga belonged to that sub-gens. The author understood Joseph La Flèche and Two Crows to say, in 1882, that while nikie names possessed a sacredness, it was only the sacredness of antiquity, and that they were not “Wakandaʇaȼicaⁿ.”