Note 63 — HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS
Reading edition
Murie, Pawnee Indian Societies, 636-37. Wagner (Entwicklung und Verbreitung, 75) disputes Shonle’s statement that they got it from the Quapaw, on the ground of the greater complexity of the Quapaw rite. His argument is unimpressive and a priori: John Wilson was the source of that complexity. Cf. Opler, The Autobiography.