Oct., 1903. Arapaho Traditions — Dorsev and Kroeber. 311 



they were going away. The young man wanted them to wait until he 

 could go with them, but they left him and traveled until they reached 

 a camp-circle. The chief gave them a camping place next to his tent. 

 The chief's son got together abundance of food and sent it over to the 

 old people's tent, causing the messenger to ask for Clot-woman for 

 his wife. The old man said : "Very well ; it is good. We have been 

 treated badly, but now everything is well. I am very glad to give my 

 daughter to the chief's son." The people were hunting buffalo. The 

 chief's son had killed several buffalo, and, bringing back many horse- 

 loads of meat, gave them to his father-in-law. Then his first son-in- 

 law, who was jealous, also came and brought meat, but it was only one 

 horse-load. He reproached the old man : "Why did you not give me 

 your daughter as you promised when you were living with m.e out on 

 the prairie ?" The old woman took the hides which her new son-in-law 

 had brought her, and, piling them up, sat on them. Then they were 

 already dressed and sewed together into a tent. Then she took 

 small round pieces of hide and sat on them, and when she got up they 

 were beautifully embroidered tent ornaments. Then she took plants 

 with straight stems, and after she had sat on them, they had become 

 tent poles. So she put up the tent. It was very fine. The rattles on 

 it swamg in the wind. Then her first son-in-law thre'W away his wife 

 and took a new wife. He camped near these people. But wherever 

 he camped, the fine new tent always stood a short distance ahead of 

 him. He did not receive the beautiful Clot-woman. — K. 



133. — Blood-Clot-Girl. 



There were two tipis which stood in a bottom near the river. In 

 one of these tipis there were a father, mother, and son, and in the 

 other there were a husband (son-in-law to the father and mother of 

 the first tipi) and his wife. The father and mother were dependent 

 upon their son-in-law's ability as a hunter, but the fact is, he was very 

 '''■uel and stingy to them 



One day this son-in-law went out on a hunt and just at a short 

 distance from their camp killed a fat buffalo cow. The daughter was 

 strictly forbidden by her husband to do more than was necessary for 

 the old folks, and to feed them on small muscles from the legs of ani- 

 mals, or something that was indigestible. She was also positively 

 instructed not to have unnecessary family conversations, but to keep 

 herself busy at other things. The little son was all the time conveying 

 the wishes or desires of the parents to their daughter. 



