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Some time afterwards he called his wife and told her that he 

 wished to go out in the mountains for a rest and instructed her to come 

 after him in the evening. This was granted by the parents. So he 

 sharpened two knives and hid them until he was' ready to be taken out. 

 His wife led him out (carrying the two knives), his face covered up,' 

 to the mountain side and left him there. The wife and boy returned to 

 the camp-circle. After they had gone out of sight, he went directly 

 to the creek bottom and began cutting- dogwood for arrow sticks, until 

 he had plenty of them, and also long slender sticks for bows. During 

 that day, he had them all decorticated and prepared in proper lengths, 

 so also with the bows. By evening he had them in some other place, 

 while he awaited his wife. At last his wife came after him and took 

 him back to the tipi. His face was covered up when he went into his 

 own tipi. Then Moon managed to get some sinew from his wife and 

 save it, enough for making arrows and bows. 



The next morning he was taken out again, taking sinew with him, 

 to the mountain side. After his wife and boy had left him, he took a 

 walk along the creek and other places in search of feathers. He picked 

 up many stray feathers from various birds and soon had enough for 

 his u^e. He sat down and placed the feathers on the arrows and tied 

 the sinew strings to the bows. He then made stone arrow points which 

 he placed on all of them. Thus he had the bows and arrows made 

 completely and tied many arrows to each bow and hid them. In the 

 evening his wife came after him. He was led in the camp as usual. 



In the morning he told his wife to ask her father if he could call 

 forth the subsistence (animal creatures) for the people. So she went 

 to her father, and said to him, "Father, my husband wants to do the 

 miracle like you, if you would agree to the proposition," said the wife. 

 The father-in-law agreed and gave out notice to the people. So Moon 

 started off and walked toward the dead black snag, carrying a digging 

 stick. The people (buffalo) were formed in two rows, all looking 

 anxiously at him. He took the digging stick and raised it up in the 

 air, and struck the snag at the bottom and there came out a human 

 being running between the rows of people. Moon, continually strik- 

 ing the snag, brought forth out of it human beings, one by one, until 

 they filled the space between the people. The first human being was 

 coming back to return into the snag, but before it started to go in. Moon 

 struck it down senseless. This being was a woman, who had a cut 

 nose. The secretions could be seen at her nose. "I have you fixed 

 this time ! You are the one who has ruined the human race ! I want 

 you to behave yourself, and act no longer as you have done hereto- 



