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TURNED K~}anze, Wind people. _Ictasanda gentes_--6, Mancinka-gaxe, Earth-lodge-makers; coyote and wolf people. 7, {~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}e-sinde, Buffalo-tail; a Buffalo-calf people. 8, {~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}a-*d*a, Deer-head; Deer people. 9, Ingce-jide, Red dung; a Buffalo-calf gens. 10, Icta-sanda, meaning uncertain ("gray eyes"?), said to refer to the effect of lightning on the eyes. This last gens consists of Thunder and Reptile people. The Inke-sabe formerly consisted of four subgentes. When the gens met as a whole, the order of sitting was that shown in figure 35. In the tribal circle the Wacigije camped next to the Hanga gens, and the other Inke-sabe people came next to the Wejincte; but in the gentile "council fire" the first became last and the last first. The Iekice or Criers. The Naqceit'a-baji, Those-who-touch-no-charcoal. The three subgentes here named sat on the same side of fireplace. The Hanga formerly had four subgeutes, but two of them, the Waciitan or Workers, and the Ha-{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}u-it'aji, Touches-no-green(-corn)-husks, are extinct, the few survivors having joined the other subgentes. The remaining subgentes are each called by several names: 1, {~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}csanha-{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}acican, pertaining to the sacred skin of an albino buffalo cow, or Wacabe, Dark buffalo; or Hanga-qti, real Hanga; or {~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}e-ceze-cataji, Do-not-eat-buffalo-tongues. 2, Janha-{~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}acican, pertaining to the sacred (cottonwood) bark; or Waqcexe-acin, Keeps-the-"spotted-object" (the sacred pole); or Jan-waqube-acin, Keeps-the-sacred-or-mysterious-wood (pole); or {~LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T~}a-waqube-cataji, Does-not-eat-the-sacred (mysterious)-buffalo-sides; or Minxa-san-cataji-ki *P*etan-cataji, Eat-no-geese-or-swans-or-cranes. [Illustration: FIG. 35.--Inke-sabe gentile assembly. A, The Wacigije, Maze or Whorl, or Wagnbe-gaxe-aka, He-who-acts-mysteriously. B, The Watanzi-jide-cataji, Those-who-eat-no-red-corn.] FIG. 35.--Inke-sabe gentile assembly. A, The Wacigije, Maze or Whorl, or Wagnbe-gaxe-aka, He-who-acts-mysteriously. B, The Watanzi-jide-cataji, Those-who-eat-no-red-corn. In the tribal circle the Wacabe camped next to the Inke-sabe, and the Waqecxe-acin were next to the Wasabe-hit'aji subgens of the catada; but in the Hanga gentile assembly the p
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