Note 31 — Chapter III · CULTS OF THE OMAHA, PONKA, KANSA, AND OSAGE.

This song and the invocation of the Thunder-being are used by the Ponka as well as by the Kansa. According to Miss Fletcher, the “sign of giving thanks” among the Hunkpapa Dakota is made by moving the hands in the opposite direction, i. e., “from the shoulder to the wrist.” See “The White Buffalo Festival of the Uncpapas,” in Peabody Museum Rept., vol. III, p. 268.