50 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. VII. 



said, "Come, let my grandfather kill you." The Elk left, taking the 

 girl with it. 



The girl's uncles came right back for they knew something was hap- 

 pening. Two of her uncles started after the Elk through the bushes 

 and timber which had torn the girl's hair and clothes. On the fourth 

 day the two uncles caught up with the Elk. 



They saw the Elk all standing. So they stopped to see where 

 the girl was. They saw her with a big elk horn, sitting down. Her 

 uncles crawled up in the timber. She noticed them and ran for them. 

 The Elk were scared, and ran for the timber. The uncles started for 

 home with their niece. "Well, brothers, we have come home. Let us 

 have our niece jump this log." The girl jumped the log, and her hair 

 grew back and her clothes were replaced. So they brought her home 

 the way she was, and fixed her a tipi and made her a high bed. 1 



'Compare Dorsey and Kroeber, Traditions of the Arapaho, Nos. 81-84; Dorsey, Cont. N. A.; 

 Ethn., VI., pp. 224; Riggs, ibid., Vol. IX., p. 115; Kroeber, J. A. Folk-Lore, Vol. XIII., p. 182 School- 

 craft, Hiawatha, p. 274. Also found among the Pawnee and Gros Ventre. 



