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This is a line of investigation we have not taken up. there were reasons why we could not, now we can, and we should do it.  It is important and will help us to unravel former connections and possibly throw light on the coming together in a tribal form.  Please do this so we can talk over these matters & plan future research.

III I am very much interested in the appearance of a "clown" element in Osage rites.  You speak of their obscenity, also of their drollery. Please note in what rites the "Clowns" appear  Also note the "Clown" characteristics, and also the characteristics of the "Wa-je-pa".  Is there any thing any where among Omaha rites that at all corresponds to the "Clown" or "Wajepa"?-

IV Is there any thing among the Osage that stands for the tribe as a unite, as did the two sacred pipes among the Omaha? - or as did the Sacred Pole, which was the center of a tribal ceremony in which all the gentes took part?- 

Transcription Notes:
gens = a clan, (plural, gentes) from the Latin meaning, clan, tribe, people in the sense of tribe