Another (?) Omaha particle.

R. Rankin r.rankin at latrobe.edu.au
Thu Jun 22 05:19:41 UTC 2000


> > > rabbit and the turkeys" (Dorsey 1890 pp.  557ff.) because I have that
>
> It's 577ff.

Sorry.  My spell checker didn't catch that!!


> There's another version pp. 65-66 for Is^tiNnikhe, and this
> is part of the standard Winnebago/Omaha/etc. Trickster cycle elaborated by
> Radin in his Trickstger study.
>

I have it in Kansa too.  As usual in a somewhat truncated version.

>
> I'd have to conclude that he (Geo. Miller) did the aN substitution
> deliberately, in
> immitation of some model that is not explained.

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