Oct., 1903. Arapaho Traditions — Dorsey and Kroeber. 327 



The woman and boy had already feasted with the father and 

 mother and told their parents that their son-in-law was out in the 

 outskirts of the camp. The parents made pemmican, which was taken 

 to the husband to eat. "You may tell your husband that he must wait 

 there until we put up his tipi ; when it is up, bring him, but cover his 

 face with a blanket," said the father-in-law. The tipi was put up and 

 the inside was fixed up to please him. Each day a brother (calf) 

 of the woman was killed for him to eat, the hide and bones saved. The 

 bones were piled up and the hide placed over them, and the calf came 

 to life again. This was done for some time, but he was fed regularly 

 on his brother-in-law's dead body. 



One day he told his wife that they ought to get out some time 

 to look around, but the father-in-law said that it was not necessary, 

 for he was properly fed. The word was given out that the father-in- 

 law was to call forth subsistence for all. All the people witnessed the 

 miracle and all were provided with meat, etc., which was of human 

 flesh. This man considered the ways of his father carefully and con- 

 cluded to find why he made his family stay at home when he went to 

 do a miracle. 



One day he told his wife and boy to go along and see the sight. 

 The wife told her father, but he said that she must stay with her hus- 

 band in the tipi. "You can go and see the sight, and I shall stay until 

 you return," said Moon, knowing that some Strange thing would oc- 

 cur outside. So the woman and the boy went along one day and 

 shortly aftenvards this man took an awl and made a hole through the 

 tipi hide, and saw that the people had all started off to the bottom of 

 the river, where they reached a black snag with a hole at the bottom 

 (hollow inside on the bottom), showing some human tracks near the 

 snag. He sneaked out and watched the father-in-law go to this black 

 snag, with a red digging stick, the people all standing in two long 

 rows, between which the person must go. So the father-in-law raised 

 the digging stick and struck the snag on its side, and there came out 

 a human being, who ran swiftly between the rows of people. The 

 man (father-in-law) continually struck the snag, and there came 

 forth human beings one by one, until there were plenty of them. The 

 first one who had appeared had encircled the crowd, returned to the 

 snag and had gone back into the hole. The human beings were 

 slaughtered and taken back to the camps for use. This man saw what 

 took place. After the butchering was done, the wife and boy ran to see 

 if the man was inside yet or not. She found him at the tipi Iving on the 

 bed. 



