<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</SPAN></span></p>
<h2>KANSAS BLIZZARDS</h2>
<p class="subtitle">Kansa</p>
<p><span class="dropcap">W</span>hen there is a blizzard, the other Kansa beg
the members of the Tcihaci gens to interpose,
as they are the Wind People.</p>
<p>They say, “Oh, grandfather, I wish good weather.
Please have one of your children decorated.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<h3><SPAN name="ARIKARA_CHIEFS" id="ARIKARA_CHIEFS"></SPAN>“KILLED TWO ARIKARA CHIEFS”</h3>
<p class="center">(Indian drawing)</p>
<p><i>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.</i></p>
<div class="figcenter"> <SPAN href="images/mlgp19.jpg"> <ANTIMG src="images/mlgp19th.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="266" alt="" /></SPAN></div>
<p class="center"><i>Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology</i></p>
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<h3><SPAN name="MANY_TONGUES" id="MANY_TONGUES"></SPAN>MANY TONGUES, OR LOUD TALKER</h3>
<p><i>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.</i></p>
<div class="figcenter"> <SPAN href="images/mlgp20.jpg"> <ANTIMG src="images/mlgp20th.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="386" alt="" /></SPAN></div>
<p class="center"><i>Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology</i></p>
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