DISC-0093 / ITEM-0051

Child-naming wi’gi’e transfer rights and associated paid instruction

Osage child-naming ritual specialists · Osage communities, Oklahoma, United States

Disclosure date: 1928
Date precision: Year
Disclosure method: Academic research
Extent: Partial
Record review: Reviewed

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Restricted material and access

Restricted recitations and interpretations within two documented versions of an Osage child-naming rite.

Material type: Restricted oral knowledge
Restricted to: Transmission by holders of rights to particular gentile recitations; the account allows some rights to be purchased and exercised for a fee
Restriction mechanism: fee, controlled_access
Stated reason: Reverence for sacred rites and their power; specific inherited or purchased transfer rights
Tradition origins: Not recorded

Recorded practice status

Unknown

Status as of: Not recorded
Status claims: Not recorded

Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.

What this disclosure covers

Transmission rights, an Old-age wi’gi’e and paid instruction to the mother.

Different gentes and versions remain distinct.

The source

The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite ↗ (SRC-0103; authenticity: Probable)

Author: Francis La Flesche; accounts from Wa-xthi-zhi, Shon-ge-mon-in and Wa-sho-she
Original publication: 1928
Linked edition: Not recorded
Format: Report
Provenance: academic_fieldwork → archival_collection
Rights of source work: Public domain
Identifiers: Not recorded
Source content hash: Not recorded

Read the transcription at printed pp. 29–30, 44–45 and 54–55, including the distinction between knowing a recitation and holding transfer rights. Not collated with the original recording or print facsimile. No claim that the text is unchanged by outside influence was adopted.

Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1925–1926, published 1928, pp. 23–164. La Flesche’s participant interviews and transcriptions remain mediated evidence.

File or recording · Document

Open artifact / recovery route ↗

Artifact ID: ARTF-0011
Inspection: Partial
Inspected parts: Printed pp. 29–30, 44–45, 54–55
SHA-256: d66633f661aa1c239939dcf0b608ce07546b0814957a3db31590b46c71f63dc7
IPFS CID: Not recorded
BitTorrent info-hash: Not recorded

Complete HTML captured, selected passages read. Image references are not bundled in this HTML hash.

Claims about this item

These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.

CLM-0186 · Content

Wa-xthi-zhi declined to transmit other gentes’ wi’gi’e despite knowing them, because he lacked their transfer rights.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Historical versions published in 1928
Locators: SRC-0103: p. 44
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite ↗ (SRC-0103; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked the cited passage. Source attribution, historical scope and artifact inspection limits apply; no independent corroboration is asserted.

SRC-0103: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0103: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0011: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0187 · Content

Wa-sho-she said purchasing his father’s Old-age wi’gi’e conferred transfer rights, but subsequent transfer still required a fee.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Historical versions published in 1928
Locators: SRC-0103: pp. 44–45
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite ↗ (SRC-0103; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked the cited passage. Source attribution, historical scope and artifact inspection limits apply; no independent corroboration is asserted.

SRC-0103: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0103: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0011: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0188 · Content

The mother could receive separately paid Ki-non U-tha-ge instruction interpreting her child’s decorated buffalo robe.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Historical versions published in 1928
Locators: SRC-0103: p. 54
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite ↗ (SRC-0103; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked the cited passage. Source attribution, historical scope and artifact inspection limits apply; no independent corroboration is asserted.

SRC-0103: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0103: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0011: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0189 · Content

That instruction connects the robe’s head, central line and rear with dawn, the sun’s path and sunset, and relates the covering robe to heavenly protection.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Historical versions published in 1928
Locators: SRC-0103: pp. 54–55
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite ↗ (SRC-0103; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked the cited passage. Source attribution, historical scope and artifact inspection limits apply; no independent corroboration is asserted.

SRC-0103: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0103: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0011: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0190 · Stated reason

La Flesche attributes reluctance to discuss rites outside ceremonial settings to reverence and fear of sacred power punishing irreverent speech or profane use.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Historical versions published in 1928
Locators: SRC-0103: p. 29
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite ↗ (SRC-0103; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

This is the source’s account of reasons, not an independently established motive for every Osage speaker or an allegation of concealed misconduct.

SRC-0103: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0103: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0011: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

Evidence qualifications

SRC-0103 · source_authenticity_probable: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0103 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0011 · artifact_partial: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.

Item notes

Scope basis: explicit refusal to transmit knowledge without the relevant rights (CLM-0186–0187). A fee alone does not establish confidentiality. The robe instruction is context from the same rite; no confidentiality rule for it, or secrecy of the whole naming ceremony, is established.