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§ 59. The [T]e-sĭnde, or Buffalo-tail gens, camps between the Maⁿ¢iñka-gaxe and the [T]a-[p]a gentes in the tribal circle. Its present chief is Wahaⁿ-¢iñge, son of Takunaki¢abi.

Taboos.—The members of this gens cannot eat a calf while it is red, but they can do so when it becomes black. This applies to the calf of the domestic cow, as well as to that of the buffalo. They cannot touch a buffalo head.—Frank La Flèche. (See §§ 31, 37, and 49.) They cannot eat the meat on the lowest rib, ʇe¢iʇ-ucag¢e, because the head of the calf before birth touches the mother near that rib.