Oct., 1903. Arapaho Traditions — Dorsey and Kroeber. 117 



"Come in !" said the man in the tipi. The medicine-man went in 

 and took a seat at the back. He found him lying across his bed, and 

 now the man began pulling out his beard. 



"Friend." said he to the medicine-man, "you have come at the 

 wrong time ; we liave no food to give you ; but I shall manage to get 

 some." "Get that paint which I used, and give it to me ; I am going 

 to paint myself with it. This friend of mine can't be here on a visit 

 witjiout having something to eat," said the man to his wife. 



So his wife got the charcoal and he painted himself, took out* his 

 bone whistle which he had made in the mean time since he had visited 

 the medicine-man. "My friend, come along to the lake," said he to 

 the medicine-man. So they went away to the lake. "Now, friend, go 

 and stand at the same place that I stood when you got the food for 

 me." . 



Then he began blowing his whistle, made four leaping motions, 

 the fourth time plunging head and hands first to the ice below. When 

 his head struck the ice, he was senseless for a time. When he came to, 

 the medicine-man said, "Friend, you have disgraced me. You should 

 have watched me closely if you wanted to be successful in diving." Now 

 the medicine-man went to him and cleaned him up as much as possible, 

 and told him to be careful thereafter. "Oh! I think I made a slight 

 blunder," said the man, "that is the reason I failed." 



The medicine-man went back to the man's tent and asked his wife 

 for the black paint. "That foolish man ! He ought to be ashamed I 

 The idea of trying to do such a thing without understanding the right 

 way !" she said, then gave the black paint to the medicine-man, who at 

 once painted his body and returned to the lake where his friend was 

 waiting. 



The medicine-man took the bone whistle and 'climbed the tree. 

 "Now, my friend, watch me closely," said he, and he blew the bone 

 whistle. Four times he made a leaping motion, the fourth time plung- 

 ing straight down into the ice, where he made a big circular hole. He 

 went down into the water, under the ice, and came up on the eastern 

 side of the lake with two beavers in both hands. 



"This is the way I do when I am hungry," said the medicine-man. 

 "If you wanted to be successful on my behalf, you should have watched 

 me carefully at the lake. Your failure to furnish a meal disgraces me 

 somewhat." So they went to the tipi with the two beavers. The man 

 called his wife, skinned the beavers, and gave them tp her to cook for 

 the medicine-man. When the meat was cooked the wife gave the med- 

 icine-man a good meal of the beavers he had gotten out of the lake. 



