coal, under Boy Chief. 3, Thunder-people, under Pawnee Chief. 4, Deer-people, under Sinde-xaⁿxaⁿ (Deer's-)tail-shows-red-at-intervals (-as-it-bounds-away).
The Ictasanda gens also was in four parts: 1, Nimba-t'aⁿ, Keepers-of-the-pipe. 2, Real Ictasanda people, (Numbers 1 and 2 were consolidated prior to 1880.) 3, Wacetaⁿ or Reptile people, sometimes called Keepers-of-the-claws-of-a-wildcat. 4, Real Thunder people, or Those-who-do-not-touch-a-clam-shell, or Keepers-of-the-clam-shell-and-the-tooth-of-a-black-bear.
The social organization of the Omaha has been treated at length by the author in his paper on Omaha Sociology.[1]
THE PONKA
The Ponka tribal circle was divided equally bet ween the Tciⁿju and Wajaje half-tribes. To the former belonged two phratries of two gentes each, i. e., numbers 1 to 4, inclusive, and to the latter two similar phratries, including gentes 5 to 8.
Tciⁿju half-tribe—Thunder or Fire phratry: Gens 1, Hisada, Legs-stretched-out-stiff (refers to a dead quadruped); Thunder people. Gens 2, Touch-not-the-skin-of-a-black-bear. Wind-makers or War phratry: Gens 3, ¢ixida. Wildcat (in two subgentes: 1, Sinde-ag¢ĕ, Wears-tails, i. e., locks of hair; Naq¢e-it'ajĭ, Does-not-touch-charcoal; and Wascʇu-it'ajĭ, Does-not-touch-verdigris. 2, Wami-it'ajĭ, Does-not-touch-blood). Gens 4, Nika-da-ɔna, "Bald human-head;" Elk people (in at least three subgentes: 1, ʇe-sinde-it'ajĭ, Does-not-touch-a-buffalo-tail; 2, ʇe ¢eze ¢atajĭ,
- ↑ Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1881–82.
