The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite Quotes

“hiu´-çka, White-hair. (In the Hoⁿ´-ga gens of the Omaha tribe and refers to the sacred white buffalo.) Husband of Mi´-doⁿ-a-bi of the Mi-ḳ’iⁿ´ gens.”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“hi´-ge-ṭoⁿ-ga, Big-chief. Refers to the high position of the hereditary chief of the Ṭsi´-zhu tribal division. Husband of Iⁿ´-be-zhoⁿ-ḳa-wiⁿ of the I´-ba-ṭse gens.”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“Shoⁿ´-ge-ṭsi-e, Dog-passing-by.”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“Shoⁿ´-ge Zho-i-ga-the; Dog-People. Refers to the life symbol of this subgens, the dog-”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“is from the people of the Ṭsi´-u-çkoⁿ-çka that the hereditary chief of the Ṭsi´-zhu great tribal division must always be chosen. The Ba´-po subgens has the office of making the stem for the ceremonial peace pipe of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge. The stem must always be made of the Ba´-po, the elder tree. The people of the Arrow-tree and the Sycamore gentes have lost the significance of their life symbols. All of these five subgentes use the cone-flower symbolic hair cut.”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“paraphrase of the wi´-gi-e of the Xu-tha´-zhu-dse, Red Eagle, gens in which the “little yellow flower,” the emblem of peace, is mentioned, is here given.”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“In the beginning the Ṭsi´-zhu people came down, in the form of eagles, from the upper to the lower world. As they came in sight of the earth they beheld a large red oak tree. They soared down to it and alighted upon its topmost branches. The shock of their weight sent to the ground a shower of acorns which scattered around the foot of the tree, whereupon they said: We shall make of this tree our life symbol; our little ones shall multiply in numbers like”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“place in the great tribal division representing the sky and all that it contains, adopted the ḳoⁿ´-ha-u-thi-stse style of hair cut for their little ones, which varied slightly from the styles used by the Hoⁿ´-ga. In the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge symbolic hair cut the line of hair left uncut along the edge is divided into little locks to typify the petals of the cone-flower, which is the sacred flower of the gens (fig. 7).”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite

“Look at the way his hair is cut (fig. 6); that is the Hoⁿ´-ga A-hiu-ṭoⁿ hair cut. That style is called ḳoⁿ´-ha-u-thi-stse. Xu-tha´-pa, Eagle-head, better known as Ben Wheeler, a young man who sat near us, looked up and said: “That’s my little boy; I cut my children’s hair like that.” Saucy-calf then explained that the act of the parents in cutting the hair of the child in that prescribed fashion was an implied petition to Wa-ḳoⁿ´-da to permit the little one to live to see old age without obstruction of any kind.”
― Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite