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view to benefiting their health). This is the only way that a person can join a bundle. (This seems to be the case with war- as well as naming-bundles.)
“No one is allowed to marry into his own clan, for the people of each clan are related to one another, but must marry into a different clan. Now suppose a man belonging to the Bear clan marries a Bear woman, and a child is bom to them. Such a child would not be recognized by the Sacs; they would not give him a ilame, for he is not entitled to one (according to their belief), nor can he belong to, or join a bundle.
“A child whose father belongs to the Buffalo clan, it is said, can, if his parents wish it, be adopted into any clan with a namesake bundle.
“When a child is four years old it is then entitled to a name T so the father goes to the head leader of a bundle, and says that he is going to name his child, that he wishes his child to belong to a certain bundle, and that he will give a feast. Any of the clans that keep, or belong to, a bundle, have the right to give names.
“The father then starts out early in the morning while breakfast is being prepared, to notify his hunters. He goes to each lodge and notifies the men he wants them to come and eat breakfast with him — eight men in all. They go at once and eat with him, and he tells them that he wants some meat for a feast. They go hunting and stay away four days, and bring back whatever they kill, such as deer, and leave it all with the father and his wife takes care of it. She can keep as much out as she needs for family use. The feast is held in four days, but in two days the people are notified to come and camp on the second day from that. In the meantime the father has selected the name, and has his attendants (‘ waiters ’) picked out, and is ready.
“Now they are all notified, and come and camp; and dogs are brought, and the other meat for the feast, and beans. Now they begin to kill the dogs and bum off the hair (PI. XXIII, B) to prepare them for the feast, and four kettles are fixed
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for the cooking (PI. XXIV). A set of firesticks is used to make the fire for singeing the dogs. One waiter takes the bow (of the fire drill) and holds the stick like an arrow, and pulls the string four times as if he was going to shoot; then they make the fire. When the dogs are cleaned nicely they are set to cook.
“When all this has been done, tobacco is put into a buck- skin, as many pieces or pinches or handfuls as there are pieces of dog. Then they begin to sing, shaking their gourd rattles, while someone holds the bundle of tobacco out to the west, north, east and south.
“When the dogs are cooked and the rest of the meat is done, the kettles are taken up and hung on a tree or scaffold, then everything is ready for the feast. Then the invited people are divided up so that the Skushi can sit on the north and the Kishko on the south side; but all go in by the east door and walk around the fire four times before they are seated. Now there are an even number of wooden bowls brought in, the same in number as the pieces of dog meat, then they divide the dog and some of the other stuff cooked, putting the same number of pieces into each bowl.
“A man of the Thunder clan is next asked to take tobacco in his hand and hold it out to the west and whoop four times for rain. Then all whoop four times with their hands over their mouths — the war whoop — and after the fourth time they jump up, grab their bowls and eat up the food just as quickly as they can, each (side) trying to beat the other. After these specially invited people have finished eating, any one who wishes can share in what is left.
“Then they worship, each one for himself, and an old man is asked to pray for a blessing for all of them, and give thanks for plenty of meat, especially the dogs furnished by God to his people. Now he must also pray for the child’s name, and for the one that gave him that name also.
“Now the Sun must know the child’s name, so early in the morning they pray to the Sun, asking him to take care
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