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
Composite names 539
Personal names from horned beings 541
Names derived from several homogeneous objects or beings 542
Return of the spirit to the eponym 542
Functions of gentes and subgentes 542
The “Messiah craze” 544
Epilogue 544
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATE XLIV. Siouan tents (_A_, tent of Ԁejequta; _B_, tent of
Mazi-jiñga (man in the sun); _C_, tent of Heqaga; _D_,
tent of Kaxe-ȼaⁿba’s father; _E_, tent of Hupeȼa,
Sr., and Agaha-wacuce) 361
XLV. Camping circle at the time of the sun dance 454
XLVI. The dancing lodge 458
XLVII. Scarification of candidates (1, Okáska nażin; 2,
Ptepa kin waći) 460
XLVIII. The sun dance 462
XLIX. A suspended devotee 464
L. The double woman 480
FIG. 156. George Miller’s personal mystery decoration 394
157. A variant of Fig. 156 394
158. Robe of Wanukige 395
159. Tent of Wanukige 396
160. Robe of Ȼaqube 396
161. Robe of Ԁahe-ʇap‘ĕ 397
162. Generic decoration referring to night, etc. 397
163. Tent of Aⁿpaⁿ-ska, Sr. 398
164. Robe of Aⁿpaⁿ-ska, Sr. 399
165. Tent of Mazi-jiñga (ghost vision) 399
166. A tent of Nikuȼibȼaⁿ 399
167. Another tent of Nikuȼibȼaⁿ 399
168. Blanket of Cuʞa maⁿȼiⁿ 400
169. Tent of ┴esaⁿ; vision of a cedar 401
170. Tent of ┴esaⁿ; sun and rainbow vision 401
171. Cornstalk decoration of the tents of Fire Chief and Waqaga 402
172. Robe of Ni-ȼactage 403
173. Duba-maⁿȼiⁿ’s father’s tent 403
174. Maⁿtcu-naⁿba’s tent 403
175. Wackaⁿhi’s tent 404
176. Tent of an unknown Omaha 404
177. Tent of ┴ebi‘a 405
178.
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