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in the skin. Then she took it and folded it three times and said : "Let 

 this become a robe with bird ornament."' Then it became an em- 

 broidered robe and she gave it to her brother. Then she told him to 

 bring her the hide of a young cow. The boy brought it in to her, and 

 she folded it, and said, "Let this become a painted robe." Then it 

 turned to a robe, and when she spread it out, the painting was seen, 

 beautiful and bright. Then she sent her brother to get the hide of a 

 middle-aged buffalo. She folded it, and said, "Let this be a robe with 

 round embroidery in the four corners and let it have eight lines of 

 embroidery across, and between them black lines, painted with char- 

 coal." Then it became such a robe and she gave it to the old man. 

 Then she told her brother, "Now bring me the front half of a hide 

 which is woolly." When he brought it she folded it and said : "This 

 shall be a pillow embroidered with yellow quills. The eye, which is 

 dark, will be represented by black hatahina fibers, but there will be 

 yellow quill embroidery around it. On the throat let there be a 

 hundred bars of yellow quills. Let the ear be a yellow cross of quill 

 work. The head should be round and the tail also should be em- 

 broidered ; and in four places let there be embroidery loops, two of 

 them in- front and two behind. All around the edge let there be fifty 

 bars of quill work, and for the nose two bars of yellow quills." Then all 

 that she had said happened. Then she took another hide and said : 

 "Let mine be white. Let the eye be dark in the center and around it 

 let there be white and black. Let the ear be a black cross with white 

 about it. Let the throat be one hundred bars of white and black, the 

 black being toward the outside. Let the skull be round, white in the 

 center and black outside. Let the tail be quilled and let there be loops 

 in four places, and black and white bars following the edge all around." 

 When she had this pillow, she told her brother : "Now bring the hide 

 of a calf." This she embroidered in 'yellow and red quills. The eye 

 was red inside, surrounded by yellow. On the throat there were only 

 fifty bars ; otherwise this pillow was like the others. This she gave 

 to the old man. 



After seven days there was snow again. When the boy got up in the 

 morning, he saw a herd of elk. His sister killed them by looking at 

 them, as before, and he brought the skins into the tent.^ There were 

 forty skins. When his sister had dressed them as before, she took a 

 piece of skin and told it to be a shirt embroidered with a circle of quills 

 on the chest, and another circle on the back, and strips of embroidery 

 over the shoulders and down the back. Along the seams there were 



' The original repeats the incident in full. 



