288 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. II. 



Old Man Coyote promised the Wolf his throwing stick with buffalo 

 horn on the end if he would show him how to make holes in the ice 

 with fat sticking through the holes. The Wolf accepted the offer and 

 Old Man Coyote tied a rock to the corner of his robe and trotted over 

 the ice, making holes in it with the fat sticking out of them. He ate 

 all that he could, and then took his horn-tipped throwing stick away 

 from the Wolf and ran off. The Wolf cried out to him not to try to 

 walk on the ice again as before, but Old Man Coyote tried to walk over 

 the ice and make holes, but he slipped and fell on the ice, and his rump 

 stuck fast to the ice, under the overhanging branches of the buffalo 

 and gooseberry bushes that were laden with the berries. Old Man 

 Coyote reached for a branch that he broke off, and with it began to 

 thresh the bushes, until all the berries were on the ice surrounding him. 



Coyote then called for all living animals of the earth to com.: 

 around him, and when they came, he said : "I am going to make a 

 big feast. Here are all these berries ; and when I sing, all of you are 

 to come and dance under me, so that I can get off the ice." And as he 

 began to sing, they all danced around and under him, until he was 

 almost free, when he said to the beaver, "Get me a large drum stick." 

 By the time the beaver returned with the drum stick he was free. He 

 then said to all, "When I sing my last song you must shut your eyes 

 and dance." They did as he instructed, and Old Man Coyote with his 

 drum stick killed most of them and those that were not killed scam- 

 pered away. Old Man Coyote enjoyed another feast. 



ii. — Old Man Coyote, Bald-Head Eagle and his Illegitimate 

 Offspring, the Thunder-Bird, and the Morning Star. 



Once upon a time Old Man Coyote started towards the mountains, 

 when he saw a Bald-Head Eagle and his wife. Old Man Coyote thought 

 it would be a good joke to have the Thunder-Bird come and live with 

 the wife of the Bald-Head Eagle and have an illegitimate offspring. 

 So the Thunder-Bird came and lived with' the wife of the Bald-Head 

 Eagle, and in time. an offspring was born to them of the form and 

 appearance of a young eagle. 



At this time there were two men of the earth, one was given power 

 by the Morning Star, and the other was left without any power at all, 

 and this one travelled to the nest of the offspring to get all of his (the 

 offspring's) power, which he obtained, and shortly afterwards be- 

 came rich. The one who was given power by the Morning Star saw 

 that the other one was surpassing him in power and wealth ; so he made 



