The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite
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The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite is by Francis La Flesche. The text says every Osage gens has its own version of the tribal Child-naming Ritual. The text says the distinctive birth names of the Puma gens are spoken of as sky names, to distinguish them from the common gentile names.
Birth names are said to have originated in the sky when the Little Ones were about to descend to the earth to take upon themselves bodily form. A name meaning Woman-who-travels-over-the-earth refers to the ever recurring westward movement of the moon over the earth. Miss Alice C. Fletcher undertook to gather information about the symbolic hair cut of the children of that tribe during her ethnological work among the Omahas in the years 1881-83, and made slow progress at first because the Indians were unwilling to speak of matters that form a part of the tribal rites.
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- Francis La Flesche
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