THE OSAGE TRIBE TWO VERSIONS OF THE CHILD-NAMING RITE BY FRANCIS LA FLESCHE Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928, pages 23-164. CONTENTS Page Introduction 29 Child-naming Rituals 31 Birth Names of the Puma Gens 31 The First Three Sons 31 The First Three Daughters 32 Sky Names 32 Child-naming ritual of the Puma gens 33 Ḳi´-noⁿ—ceremony of Decorating the Xo´-ḳa 33 Ḳi´-noⁿ Wi´-gi-e 34 Wa´-ṭse-ṭsi and the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge Gentes 35 Ṭsi Ṭa´-p̣e (Approach to the House) 36 The Wa-the´-the Ceremony 38 Zha´-zhe Ḳi-ṭoⁿ Wi´-gi-e 40 Old-age Wi´-gi-e 45 Wi´-gi-e of the Wa´-ṭse-ṭsi Gens 47 Wi´-gi-e of the Bow People 47 Earth Names and Wi´-gi-es 48 Wi´-gi-e of the Wa´-ṭse-gi-ṭsi 51 Special Instructions to the Mother 54 Origin Wi´-gi-e of the Tho´-xe Gens 56 Child-naming Ritual of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge Gens 59 Certain Gentes Called to Take Part in the Ceremony 59 Wa-zho´-i-ga-the (Life symbol) Wi´-gi-e 60 The Xo´-ḳa Ceremonially Conducted to the Child’s House 67 A Life Symbol Sent to Each of the Officiating Gentes 68 Gentes Recite Their Wi´-gi-es Simultaneously 68 The Child Is Passed from Gens to Gens to Be Blessed 71 First Child-naming Wi´-gi-e of the 0si´-zhu Wa-noⁿ Gens 75 The Gentile Hair Cut of Children 87 Hair Cut of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge Gens 89 Paraphrase of the wi´-gi-e of the Red Eagle gens 90 Wi´-gi-e of the Ni´-ḳa Wa-ḳoⁿ-da-gi and the Tho´-xe gentes 93 Fondness of personal adornment 95 Ear Perforating 95 Ḳi´-noⁿ Wi´-gi-e 96 Ṭsi Ṭa´-p̣e Wa-thoⁿ and Wi´-gi-e 97