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Nih'a°qa° throws a stone, and therefore people die. A man who has com- 

 mitted murder is driven away by the people. He cries. Niha"ga° comforts 

 him. A buffalo cow appears to him. He fails four times to shoot her. She 

 tells him not to shoot her, and he ceases. A water monster coils around his tent. 

 His wife gives it feathers and propitiates it. It allows itself to be carried into 

 a spring. Then many buffalo come about the tent. The murderer kills many, and, 

 instructed by Niha^ga'*, carries the meat to the starving people and feeds them in 

 the ceremonial societies. Then he erects the lodge- of the oldest society and in- 

 structs the people. Then the other society ceremonials are made, followed by 

 the Buffalo-dance and the Sun-dance. — K. 



7. — Origin of Ceremonial Lodges. 



Man and wife camp by river. Man goes after game, sees buffalo cow. 

 Sits down to shoot, cow stops and looks at him. Cow tells man not to shoot, 

 as she has something to tell him. There shall be lodges for societies; they 

 shall be in this order: The Thunder-bird. Lime-Crazy, Dog-Soldiers, Buffalo- 

 Women's, Old Men's lodge and Sweat-lodge. Man returns and relates expe- 

 rience — D. 



8. — Origin of Kit- Fox and Star Lodges. - ^ 



Young boys leave camp-circle. See chief skinning buffalo. One boy takes 

 kidney, another piece of liver. Chief takes kidney and liver away from boys 

 who are about to eat them. Boy who took kidney gets mad and strikes chief 

 on head with leg of buffalo and kills him. Boys run to camp and are chased 

 b> hunters, who surround lodge where boy who killed chief took refuge. 

 Small whirlwiind comes and circles about tipi. Boy reappears and cloud of 

 smoke goes up to sky. Afterward they see boy with yellow calf going from 

 them and they make charge for him. They cannot overtake boy and at 

 last he disappears and they see coyote running. They return home. Five 

 years afterwards boy comes upon hunting camp and there meets his partner, 

 boy who had taken piece of liver. He calls him to break up camp and go and tell 

 chief he wants to see him. Chief goes and meets him coming from sunset, 

 carrying under his arm kit-fox hide. He wears white robe and body is painted 

 yellow. Chief goes home and boy follows him. but switches around and comes 

 up from sunrise on buckskin horse. His body is painted yellow, face yellow, 

 forehead red, red streak from eyes, chin green. On scalp-lock was kit-fox 

 hide. Carries bow and lance, with feather pendants on bow. He gallops from 

 north to south twice, then comes from south to north, riding gray horse, twice. 

 Horn bonnet has long fringed pendants, quilled in yellow color. His face is 

 painted yellow, forehead green, with perpendicular black streak down face, 

 like Coyote. These two appearances at rising of sun originate Kit- Fox and 

 Star societies. — D. 



9. — Origin of the Ceremonial Lodges. 



A man who lives alone fails four times to shoot a buffalo. It gives him 

 the buffalo and the ceremonial lodges for the people. — K. 



