Just under the river, at the left, we see a large star, the Red or Morning Star. Next are six stars, Ta¢a d ¢i n . The Omaha know a similar group, which they call "Mi n xa si ʇañga," or "Large foot of a goose." Next is the Evening Star; and last comes the small star, "Mikak'ĕ-ɔiñʞa." Beneath these four we see the seven stars, or Pleiades (Mikak'ĕ u d átse pé¢ŭ n d a, the Seven Gentes of Stars), between the Moon (on the left) and the Sun (on the right). Beneath these are the peace pipe (on the le

1 | Ɔiñʞa | weháʞi¢e 6 : | á d i n taú, | Tsiká! 7 | Child | last | he really said | O grandfather! | Há, | wisŭñ'ʞa, | ɔiñ'ʞa | ɔuíʞa | wa¢iñ'ʞe, |éʞi añká 8 : | á d i n taú, | Tsiká! | Ho | younger brother | child | body | they have none | he saw saying that | he really said | O grandfater! 3 | Ɔiñ’ʞa | ɔuíʞa | añʞúʞiʇse tatsé: | á d i n taú, | Tsiká! | Child | body | we shall seek ours | he really said | O grandfather! | Há, | wisŭñ’ʞa, | úʇa n d e¢a¢é tatsé: | á d i n taú, | Tsiká! | Ho | yo

(Tradition of the Bald Eagle subgens.) 20 1 | Ɔiñ’ʞa | níɥk’ăcíʞa | tá d eʇa n | úʇa n d e | añʞáxe tatsé, | wísŭñʞá: | Child | human beings | in order that (pl.) | attention | we shall make | younger brother | á d i n taú, | Tsiká! | he really said | O grandfather! | Káxe-wáhü-sa n | tsi’ naci n ’: | á d i n taú, | Tsiká! | Káxe-wáhü-sa n | came and stood | he really said | 0 grandfather! 3 | Káxe-wáhü-sa n ’ | ha n ’ d ʇa n | wakan’ʇa | ¢iñkcéʇsi | hi’naɔi n ’: | á d i n taú, | Káxe-wáhü-sa n

As one phratry is composed of the two gentes, Large and Small Hañka, that have the sole right to sing the war songs, time may show that these songs, which, with their chart of pictographs 23 , are used by the Osage, are substantially those of the seventh degree in the Osage society. This is rendered the more probable by the fact that the Kansa have grouped their gentes in seven phratries, just the number of the degrees in the society. And this arrangement by sevens is the rule among Osage, Kansa