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ing by looking at them." Then the wolf said : "My grandchild, get 

 up and look at them." Then she got up and opened the door, and as 

 soon as she looked at the elk they fell down dead. The boy said : 

 ''Thus it is well that I waked you ; because I continually tried to make 

 you get up, we have been helped. We have been pitied." Then the 

 girl took a flint knife with a bone handle and gave it to her brother and 

 said to him : "Take this and go out and skin them." He went out 

 and skinned the elk as easily as if he had done it before. As soon as 

 he had skinned one he threw the hide into the tent and the girl folded 

 it three times and sat on it and it was completely dressed. They con- 

 tinued to do this until all the skins had been worked, while all the meat 

 was hanging sliced up in the trees near the river. They had killed 

 thirty-six elk. After he had brought in the last one, the girl said. 

 *'Let all these elk skins be sewed together in the shape of a tent." Piling 

 them up she sat on them, and when she spread out the pile it had 

 become a tent, with a bird ornament (niihiniyohut) near the top and 

 four round ornaments at the sides, and a door, and rattles over the door. 

 Then the girl said : "When I go outside, let there be twenty-seven tent 

 poles, with two for the outside of the tent, twenty-nine in all." Then 

 she went out and there at her left were twenty-nine straight tent poles, 

 just of the length that she had ordered them to be. The poles had been 

 made from otter-weeds (yeiyanaxuuci, a species of composita). Then 

 the new tent stood there completely erected and covered. Then the 

 girl folded three elk skins, sat on them, and said: "Let this be a wall 

 hanging (ka'^kusaaga'^), embroidered with lines of quills in various 

 colors." Then it was such, and she hung it behind her brother's bed. 

 Then she folded three other skins, to be a hanging for her bed, and sat 

 on them ; but she told the lines of embroidery to be closer together than 

 on her brother's. Then she folded and sat on three other skins, and 

 said : "To four places let there be attached three pendants. Let there 

 be nothing more." This she gave to the old man. 



After seven days there was another fall of snow. The boy got up 

 early in the morning to make a fire and saw the snow and the buffalo 

 all about, the land being black with them. He waked his sister and 

 tried to make her get up. but she said again: "What can I do? Let me 

 sleep longer. You have broken my sleep." At last the wolf told her: 

 "My granddaughter, get up," Then she did so, and as she looked out 

 of the door the buffalo fell dead. Then she told her brother to skin a 

 "two-teeth" (naniisa"kuta°, a young buffalo). The brother said, "Why 

 do you wish this two-teeth?" 'Because its skin is soft, and quill em- 

 broidery will not break when we sit on it," she said. Then he brought 



