Abstracts — Dorsey and Kroeber. 455 



Parents see him climb cottonwood snag and drop remnant of chief into hollow 

 body of snag. Raw-Gums goes back to tipi and manages to get to cradle without 

 disturbing parents, \v4io lie awake. While child is still sleeping father directs 

 wife to boil beef. He invites men to assemble at his tipi. He tells them he has 

 called them together to decide best plan to get rid of child. He tells them what 

 he has seen. Men much amazed and finally leave it with fat^her to punish 

 child. He wraps baby with fat and throws it out of door and calls dogs to 

 plunge for it. When Raw-Gums lights on ground he becomes young man and 

 begins to dance around, singing, "A skeleton! A skeleton!" Bereaved families 

 go to cottonwood and cut it down. They find skeletons of chiefs. People break 

 camp and leave locality. 



Old woman, White-Owl-Woman, comes to place. Challenges Raw-Gum.; 

 to exhibition of power. He consents. White-Owl-Woman makes fire, stakes 

 blue stem and starts it to burn at bottom. Blue stem burns and falls toward 

 Raw-Gums, who has to seek good food. Raw-Gums goes to deserted camping 

 places and brings good dried beef with tenderloin fat, which White-Owl-Woman 

 eats. She stakes another blue grass stem and it falls toward her. She goes to- 

 deserted places and brings in food which Raw-Gums eats. The burning of blue 

 grass was repeated twice more and both bring in roll of pemmican mixed with 

 berries. White-Owl-Woman then asks Raw-Gums questions to show best intel- 

 ligence. She asks, what is most essential article He answers, moccasin ; what 

 never gets tired motioning people? ear-flaps of tipi; what' never tires of stand- 

 ing in upright position, is always very attentive? tipi pins; what has two paths? 

 nose; which travels fast? brain (thought) ; what animal is harmless? rabbit; 

 which of two hands is most useful? left hand. White-Owl-Woman tells Raw- 

 Gum;;, as he had answered questions so readily, to strike her" head at top. He 

 strikes her head with stone sledge and bursts her skull and so scatters brains, 

 which were snow, melting very gradually. Thus there is season of vegetation. 

 — D. 



103. — The Skunk and the Rabbit. 



The rabbit and the skunk meet in a trail. Neither will make way for the 

 other. The skunk persuades the rabbit that he will give him medicine for his 

 eyes, blinds him, and goes on his way. — K. 



104. — Turtle's War- Party. 



Ad bellandum proficiscuntur homines. Comitatur testudo ; quocum una eunt 

 verruca et vulva. Postquam redierunt verruca et vulva corporis membra fiunt. 

 — K. 



IDS — The Girl who became a Bear. 



A girl who plays at being bear turns to one. When the other children 

 reveal this, she attacks the camp and kills many people. The survivors flee, 

 leaving two children tied to a tree. A dog loosens them. When the bear pur- 

 sues them, they rise to the sky by means of a ball and turn to stars. — K. 



