Kansa
When there is a blizzard, the other Kansa beg the members of the Tcihaci gens to interpose, as they are the Wind People.
They say, “Oh, grandfather, I wish good weather. Please have one of your children decorated.”
Then the youngest son of one of the Wind People, but one half grown, is selected. He is painted all over with red paint. Then he goes out into the storm and rolls over and over the snow, reddening it for some distance. This stops the storm.
“KILLED TWO ARIKARA CHIEFS”
(Indian drawing)
The rank of the chiefs is shown by the white weasel skins attacked to their costumes. The arrow in the thigh of the horseman indicates that he was wounded.
Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
MANY TONGUES, OR LOUD TALKER
Oddly enough, the name is given as that of the vanquished, not of the victor, although the balloon of sound would seemingly indicate otherwise. The pipe between the two indicates that the victor is entitled to celebrate his victory.
Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
