Show lians IN ANS reniff go TRIBAL CM CUS I 1 U lm usages 0 sages observe old religious ceremony in naming baby oila 01 A child coming nt ill an faige indian settlement near uray hi rie olla uns as a keply religious rell glou ebent n perhaps aill not ie be re pealed maicy more lime there now remain less than buu full blood ed nien itera ers of a 3 tribe that came come to 10 oklahoma 50 N years ago 4 WO OW strong it Is tery beldom sel flona that the eyes ol 01 a win in are permitted to view vien one of these symbol symbolical hal affairs I 1 1 I he tie full blooded 11 baby came through the ceremony sivil lug its hair hid bo bin boen en tut ul after a prescribed fashion lui im pil ing i penult to the great SI itil that it should the ilia to see old age inthout i obstruction of any kind lind in fact tie lie head was shaved shared except for a trine e around the lom lower er edges mie sun was vias traveling ra domard doN in the afternoon hen the chief medicine ruller receded a call from roin baby mas copper colored dad that he possessed blankets for fora gifts to I 1 ass around the circle at sunrise on the day lay following limIng tol a rental recto of lie the taking of I 1 ife syro sym bols a vies icca before a large as Q of full blooded blo oiled indians at the home of alaby nas ue parent parents the medicine chief after chanting the Bym lols proceeded to decorate himself from a paint pot put ulab sa cred colors fastened to his scalp lock a red fender and wrapped himself in tit a radiant hued blinkal symbolic Sm bolie articles used futher ant and mother of ine child to be ghea a name were seated la in the cast east eda 1 of their great frame home hoine the chief medicine min and his dozen or mole helpers sit on in the south side and visiting clansmen were wert seated on the north side 11 hen all had spilled to their pra inper per places mid ani the center of the room was Is a 8 gnat mat hollow leal lea articles to be aed in ili the cere vie is d ried around chibe consisted if vt cajar fronds or bron broniek bek a boc of mashed corn cora and boul of water the medicine men nien then began chanting ch intIng antin eliat they bermel the migle 11 it tranI atlon be he tue im aill ive ire heed to eee see hat hilt can ran be done aeu as these words are being spoken to the he first ihlia of heaven lie the gla caily descended filiere the lie little ones tune we not DO yet become people 1 after tills tine sing son eang 1 I aich lasted an hour ilia lie baby fisl wn ai ali en A er to tie ile bt licud id ine dicine chief iii ahu ho lo 10 turn lilau to 0 o alz lesser chiefs and then returned him film to their lead cr er sho ho dipped the fr of f hia his fingers into a bowl bovil 0 of I 1 write la in a had find been placed sacred paint and red war fronds the head climet then gently touched the be lips head arm arms and body of the little one I 1 ihle his act atu wt an appeal to pant grant health and strength tint thit the he billil would grow to P otil old age interruption by disease six chieft participate then he the baby mas turned over to the bead of another vie diMne clan who ho touched the belal heidin heid cn A lips tills mil rind body of the child titi pounded corn nn an act of IM the child would not luttot lai lat to food during life after each of the fix all chilt h AS many medicine clans bli bal 6 died tied the child in the eime sime the lead tend of the med ledins da tire brought vie lie moulder forcari ig placed in her bonds two kittil t low each of which ed a sacred name noine she wn was ed to select a name naine cj ej by iho the enfred slick the oame come the believed to tx be mows a euphonious a and nd religious tab n in t this closed ilia lie and ile ashla gemas ge mas wa then wail mil indian personage a clansen uj perhaps some day be may way |