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lay about outside in large piles. Then he and his wife cut up and 

 skinned the buffalo. Then Nih'a^^a*^ came to him and said: "Take 

 an entire skin and fill it with pemmican. Then go to the people and 

 tell the cryer to call the people, to come, arranged in the following com- 

 panies : kit-fox-lodge, star-lodge, hiitceaoxa°wu (tomahawk-lodge), 

 biitaha°wu (drum? lodge), haha'^ka^wu (fool-lodge, crazy-lodge), 

 hagawa'^wu (dog-lodge), hinanaha'^wu (= ?), banuxta°wu (the wo- 

 men's buffalo-dance), and tciinetcei bahaeiha" (water-sprinkling old 

 men). They are to come to feast with you. Tell the cryer also to call 

 out for the haga'^wunena'^ and haga'^basein ' to come." Then the man 

 did as Niha^ga"^ told him. When he came into the camp circle 

 carrying his big load and weeping, the people wondered. Ac- 

 cording to his instructions from Nih'a'^ga", he looked for the largest 

 tent and entered it. Then he sent out the cryer. After a while the kit- 

 fox company came in. He selected one of them to cry out and do his 

 errands. Then he himself ate first of the pemmican which he had 

 brought, and then the others of the company all ate. Next came the 

 star company, and he selected one to be a cryer, and ate of the pemmi- 

 can, and they all ate of it. And so all the companies entered and were 

 fed, until all the people had eaten. Then the murderer pledged himself 

 to erect the bayaa"wu (all-lodge, united-lodge). When this lodge 

 had been erected, and the people were inside, he showed them a skin on 

 which were painted all the lodges (dances). This painted skin 

 Nih'a'^ga" had given him. The bayaa'^wu remained standing for four 

 days in the middle of the camp circle, and was the largest tent erected. 

 On the fourth day the sweat-house was also put up. Then the man 

 explained the painted skin. The next lodge was the dog lodge. This 

 was also pledged by the murderer and was made according to the 

 paintings on the skin. During the first three days of the lodge they 

 made the ornaments to wear.- After they had made them, Nih'a''ga" 

 examined them, and, finding them good, said : "It is well. Now 

 dance for the fourth day, wearing these ornaments and painting your- 

 selves." Ever since they have continued to wear these ornaments 

 and paint in the same manner. The next lodge was the crazy-lodge,' 

 and for this they made the apparel and painted themselves as they 

 still do. Before making each new dance they moved the camp to 

 another place. Next he made the drum (?) dance (biitaha^wu). In 



' Persons of certain ceretiionial functions. 



" While the companies were invited to feast beginning with the youngest, the ceremonies are 

 held in the reverse order. The bayaanwu seems to include the hinanahanwu and the tciinetcei 

 bahaeihan, the two oldest companies. The k't-fox and star companies are omitted from the ceremo- 

 nies, but the offerings-lodge (sun-dance), for which there is no company, is introduced. 



