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come here to bless you and your people, so that you may live and go 

 back to your people and show them what we are, and we will instruct 

 you for the next four days. Our people possess the whole earth, and 

 our braves do the fighting in companies. We do not allow women to 

 mingle with our braves. If you allow maidens in your work, take four 

 maidens, who are to wear belts made of rattlesnake skin." After thus 

 talking to Owl-Man the old Wolf -man, who claimed to be the chief and 

 who had a place assigned to him in front of the circle of Wolf-men, 

 burned incense, and in an instant every Wolf warrior was gorgeously 

 dressed. The old Wolf-man wore a bear's hide, dressed with the 

 hair on. All the other Wolf warriors were adorned with wolf 

 skins, tanned with the hair on, with a hole cut at the back, 

 big enough to permit the insertion of the head (see Fig. 6), 

 so that the skins were worn as capes, the head hanging on their 

 breast and the tail part hanging down their back. See Plate 

 XI. Fig. i. Their naked bodies were painted yellow and the 

 extremities of their limbs were painted red. Each Wolf war- 

 rior had a spear about eight feet long, with a point at one end 

 made out of flint. These spears were not alike, but they were 

 trimmed with the feathers of every bird to be found. Two of the 

 spears had eagle feathers hanging down their whole lengths; these two 

 spears stood, one at each side of the entrance of the lodge, while 

 two other spears, wrapped with otter skin, stood in front of the Wolf 

 chief. The Wolf chief had in his hand a flat drum. Several other of 

 the Wolf-men also had a small drum. The Wolf-men watched their 

 chief when he began to burn incense to the Great Medicine. The 

 Wolf chief held his drum over the burning incense, passing it back- 

 wards and forwards, first to the east, then south, then west, and then 

 north. Then he took hold of the drum stick and struck the drum 

 once, then the second, third, and fourth times. The other Wolf-men 

 stood watching their chief. They beat their drums and yelled and 

 whooped with all their might, and they began to sing and dance. 

 Owl-Man learned about three hundred songs from these mysterious 

 Wolf-men. They had four sacred songs and four war songs. While 

 dancing, each warrior got up and took hold of his spear and danced 

 with it. When they ceased to dance they stood the spears up in 

 front of them again. Four days they danced. At night, Owl-Man 

 would fall asleep, and in the morning, when he awoke, all of the Wolf- 

 men would be gone, but they would soon return and appear in human 

 form, ready for the dance. On the last day, in the afternoon, Owl- 

 Man saw four old men coming, who entered the lodge, and each old 

 man made a speech, telling his exploits to the other warriors. After 



