Identifier: annualreportofbu43smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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SHELL GORGET AND DOWNY PLUME (LIFE SYMBOLS) BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 4
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WA-SHO-SHE (HO---GA A-HIU-TC^ (EAGLE) GENS LA FLESCHEI CHILD-NAMING RITE 45 The first seven lines of the wi-gi-e refer back to the time whenthe Ho°-ga who possess seven fireplaces chose for one of theirlife symbols the Stainless Bird, the mottled eagle. The peoplewho are here spoken of as the Ho^-ga having seven fireplaces arethose who compose the seven gentile groups that represent the landportion of the earth in the two great tribal divisions symbolizingthe cosmos. These seven gentile groups (seven fireplaces) are, asgiven by Black-dog. (See 36th Ann. Kept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp.52-53.) 1. Wa-^a-be-to, They-who-own-the-black-bear. 2. P-gtho--ga, Puma. 3. 0-po°, Elk. 4. Mo°-i°-ka-ga-xe, Makers-of-the-earth. 5. Ho^-ga gthe-zhe, The-mottled-sacred-one. 6. Xu-tha, Eagle (the adult golden eagle). 7. Ho°-ga zhi^-ga, The-little-sacred-one. When the Ho°-ga, a people who possess seven fireplaces wentto the Stainless Bird and said to him (lines 5, 6, and 7): Thelittle ones have nothing o

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