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to be fringes, and at the bottom pieces were to hang down (hiotana"). 

 Between the fringes were to be weasel skins and tufts of long hair at- 

 tached with quill embroidery. The quills were to be yellow. Then 

 she made him leggings, embroidered and fringed, and moccasins em- 

 broidered with a bird. Then she made a woman's dress for herself 

 with four rows of fringes, at the breast, at the waist, at the hips, and at 

 -the bottom. It was covered with crosses of embroidery all over and 

 on her left shoulder (to the east as she stood facing the south), there 

 was a yellow sun, and on her right shoulder a yellow half-moon. As 

 she turned, she turned to the right, so that the sun on her shoulder 

 traveled in the direction of "the sun. She also made leggings for her- 

 self embroidered all around the leg, and moccasins, the stripes on 

 which were farther apart than those on her brother's. The old man. 

 being old, received no clothing decorated like this.' 



Then the boy said: 'T wish I could have a panther of yellow- 

 color, with white sides, for a dog.'' His sister went outside the tent 

 and said, "Come, panther, you of the yellow color with white sides, 

 come here !" Then a panther came, slowly twisting his tail, and 

 entered the tent, and lay down behind the boy's pillow, laying his head 

 on his outstretched feet. Then the boy said: "I wish that you have 

 for your dog a bear that has a white streak from his shoulders down 

 his forelegs and whose claws are white with a black streak."' Then 

 his sister went outside and said what he wanted, and a bear came 

 pacing, and sat at the foot of her bed. 

 • After seven days it snowed again, and again in the morning it 

 was black with buffalo. The girl killed them as before by looking at 

 them.* The boy brought her the skins and from them she made hair- 

 covered bags and folding parfleches, and other bags of rawhide, painted 

 with designs. He brought her forty skins and from these she made the 

 bags. Then she put dried meat into all of them and piled them up on 

 top of one another inside and outside of the tent, and still tk.ere was 

 meat on the trees. 



While they were in all this abundance, the people were hunting, 

 and two young men, brothers, were in advance. They came across this 

 tent of the brother and sister and their two dogs. The young man saw 

 them coming and went out to meet them. The two brothers saw all 

 the meat hanging on the trees and piled up outside of the tent, and 



* The young man's blanket with the bird embroidery is called t^ataatasanuxt; the old 

 man's with the eight Imes of embroidery nanaiisantaxah.i. The girl's white-embroidered pillow Is 

 called nanankuhut hananuhu. Iier brother's shirt biigancinoxan, his kind of leggings biiQifoxataan, 

 his bird-embroidered moccasins, niabeihan. Compare the styles of embroidery here described with 

 descriptions and illustrations in The Arapaho. Bulletin .^m. Mus. Nat. Hist, XVIIl, pt. I, p. 59 seq. 



» The original repeats the incident in full. 



