October, 1903. Traditions of the Crows — Simms. 307 



20. — The Stump-Horn and the Bladder. 



Once upon a time when the people were hungry and were led by 

 the chiefs to hunt buffalo, there were two poor boys in the party. One 

 of the boys had a grandmother. 



While the camp was moving, the boys were playing on one side a 

 game with arrows, and during the afternoon, the party halted and the 

 boy who had a grandmother saw the halt made, and he told his play- 

 mate to go and tell the chief that they had better camp where he was 

 playing, for it was a good place/ and not to say anything more, but 

 come back. The boy did as he was told, and the sub-chiefs took offense 

 at the boy directing their chiefs. The chief said, "Where is your 

 place?" The boy directed him to it, which angered all the others; but 

 the camp was made at the spot designated. 



Just as they were unpacking, they heard the voice of a man shout- 

 ing repeatedly from a hill, and making signs. The men of the camp got 

 on their horses and rode up to the man on the hill and he told them that 

 a large drove of elks was coming down the river. Among the men 

 who went up the hill was the chief. Before they started to hunt the 

 elks, the chief said, "I am going back to ask the boy who directed me to 

 stop here, what to do." He went back and asked the boy, who said, 

 "Right opposite that blue bank there, is a lot of sticking mud ; drive 

 the elk in there." The other boy told the chief to bring him a stump- 

 horn of an old elk, also its bladder. The two boys went with the hunt- 

 ing party and saw the killing and brought back to the grandmother of 

 the boy a dead young elk. 



The chief ordered all the elk teeth to be gathered and brought to 

 him, and when the teeth were brought to him he directed 

 the teeth to be taken to the tipi where the boys lived. The boy 

 who ordered the stump-horn and the bladder, said to the one bring- 

 ing the elk teeth, "Take them back to the chief; he has two daugh- 

 ters, who may find use for them." The chief sent word back to the boys 

 that they were poor where they were ; that they had better come over 

 and live in the tipi he had placed for them near his own tipi ; and that 

 he would give his two daughters to them,— and the boys obeyed the 

 chief. 



After the stump-horn and bladder had been dressed and prepared, 

 the owner of them told the chief to hang them up in his tipi. 



One day, after the boys had been married to the daughters of the 

 chief and had lived with him for some time, moving about from place 

 to place, hunting elk until most of the elk had be.en killed or driven 



