8 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. V. 



He sharpened it, and thus had a knife. Then he .also made a knife 

 from flint by flaking it into shape. All the people learned how to make 

 knives. 



This man also made the first bow and arrows. He made the arrow 

 point of the short rib of a buffalo. Having made a bow and four 

 arrows, he went off alone and waited in the timber at a bufifalo path. 

 A buffalo came and he shot : the arrow disappeared into the body and 

 the animal fell dead. Then he killed three more. He went back and 

 told the people : "Harness the dogs ; there are four dead buffalo in 

 the timber." So from this time the people were able to get meat with- 

 out driving the buffalo into an inclosure. 



The people used the fire drill. A man went off alone and fasted. 

 He learned that certain stones, when struck, would give a spark and 

 that this spark would light tinder. He gathered stones and filled a 

 small horn with soft, dry wood. Then he went home. His wife said 

 to him : "Please make a fire." He took out his horn and his flint 

 stones, struck a spark, blew it, put grass on, and soon, to the astonish- 

 ment of all who saw it, had a fire. This was much easier than using the 

 fire drill, and the people soon all did it. 



These three men who procured the buffalo inclosure and the 

 horses, the knife and the bow, and fire, were the ones who brought the 

 people to the condition in which they live.^ — :K. 



5. — The Flood.' 



There was a tent in which lived an old man, his wife, his daughter, 

 and his little son. They lived alone, near a river. The man was sick 

 and was unable to go out hunting. Early in the morning the girl used 

 to go for Water. Once as she came back, carrying water, she found a 

 dead rabbit. She took it home and said to her parents : "Perhaps the 

 rabbit tried to swim across, and just getting over, died without 

 being able to go much farther." Then she skinned it and cooked it for 

 the old man, being glad to have something for him to eat in his sick- 

 ness. Next morning, as she went for water and came back, she found 

 an antelope lying by the trail. Now she suspected something strange. 

 She left the antelope and told her parents, calling her mother tp come 

 out and look at it. Her mother said : "It must have passed by and 

 dropped down dead. We have nothing to eat, so we had better butcher 



• For similar rationalizing traditions of the origin of the arts of culture, see Grinnell, Black- 

 foot Lodge Tales, 140, 142, and Matthews, Mem. Am. Folk Lore Soc, V, 70 (Navaho). 



' From informant I. 



