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Show 86 PICT0GRAPH8 OP THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. kan^ ahan ^ iflkce ( Deity of the night, moon); Mikak'e pe^ iiMa, Seven Stars; Ta ad# n, Three Deer; Mikak'e tan^ a, Big Star; Mikak'e oni^ a, Little Star. Then the Black bear went to the Waoin^ a- ou^ se, a female red bird sitting on her nest. This grandmother granted his request. She gave them human bodies, making them out of her own body. The earth lodge at the end of the chart denotes the village of the Hanqauta^ a^ si, who were a very warlike people. Buffalo skulls were on the tops of the lodges, and the bones of the animals on which they subsisted, whitened on the ground. The very air was rendered offensive by the decaying bodies and offal. The Han^ a utaf anjsi made a treaty of peace with the Waoace and Tsiou gentes, and from the union of the three resulted the present nation of the Osages. The Bald Eagle account of the tradition begins very abruptly. The stars were approached thus: Handa^ an- Wakan; a ( sun), Watee ijujja ( morning star), Wadaha ( Great Dipper), Tapa ( Pleiades) Mikak'e-han- da^ an ( Day Star). This version gives what is wanting in the other, the meeting of other gentes, Hafika oiii^ a, Waoaoe, Han^ auta^ a^ sijCtc, and the decisions of the chief of the Han^ a- uta^ a^ si. The people on the war side had similar adventures, but the accurate account has not yet been obtained. The whole of the chart was used mnemonically. Parts of it, such as the four heavens and ladders, were tattooed on the throat and chest of the old men belonging to the order." & Fro. 38.- Osage chart. TREATIES. The most familiar example of the recording of treaties is the employment of wampum belts for that purpose. An authority on the subject says: " The wampum belts given to Sir William Johnson, of immortal Indian memory, were in several rows, black on each side, and white in the middle; the white being placed in the center was to express peace, and that the path between them was fair ami open. In the center of the |