Abstracts — Dorsey and Kroeber. 461 



nobody there. Strange object says its food can't get away and starts off again 

 on trail. Two other pair of moccasins in turn cry after object and it returns 

 each time, but finding nobody, starts off after family. Father, mother and 

 daughter reach hill and see skull rolling after them. Daughter wishes for 

 something to obstruct passage and there is thick patch of thistles behind. 

 Skull finally passes through thicket. Father and mother reach hill and daugh- 

 ter again wishes for something to obstruct path and thick timber is behind her, 

 which skull gets through. Daughter again wishes and thick patch of cacti 

 is placed across trail. Skull again gets through and it keeps rolling on after 

 family. Daughter wishes for real obstruction and there is deep canyon behind 

 them. Skull goes rolling up and down to find narrowest place to leap. When 

 opposite her, daughter tells it to leap. It leaps, but canyon is too wide and it 

 whirls down below and strikes bottom with noise like crack of thunder. Can- 

 yon closes and buries it. Family reach big circle of tipis and they tell people 

 of circumstance of their arrival. Daughter says that is way we shall be placed in 

 ground when we die. — D. 



125. — The Deceived Blind Man. 



Blind man' and wife camping in lonely place. Wife gathers berries for 

 food. Husband tells wife to watch for buffalo. When fattest one is passing 

 by, she is to place bow and arrow in position and tell him when to shoot. Buf- 

 falo comes. Wife places bow with arrow in position and tells husband when 

 to shoot. He shoots. Wife says he missed vtital spot. He disputes, but wife 

 insists and blind man yields and they return to tipi. In morning wife tells 

 husband she is going to gather tomatoes. She secretly goes to dead buffalo, 

 and takes meat and hide into thick timber. She has good fat meat for dinner 

 and supper. On going back to tipi she picks up tomatoes and gives them to 

 husband, telling him to be thankful for what she brings him. Does the same 

 next day. At buffalo-wallow she washes hands, using dirt to kill smell of 

 meat. Husband smells odor of fresh meat. She ascribes it to sweat. The 

 same things occur next day. After wife has gone, owl lights on tipi pole and 

 tells blind man he has killed buffalo and that wife is eating meat by herself. 

 He is to get even with her, but first is to look to top of poles and see owl's 

 eyes. Man looks and eyesight is restored, but he has eyes like owl. He 

 takes bow and arrows and goes to place where wife is feasting. He shoots 

 wife dead. — D. 



126. — The Deceived Blind Man. 



A blind man shoots at buffalo and kills them, his wife aiming for him. 

 She deceives him and gives him no meat. An owl gives him his sight again. 

 He forces his wife to eat the food which she has kept from him, until she dies. 

 — K. 



127. — The Deceived Blind Man and the Deserted Children. 



A blind man shoots and kills buffalo, his wife aiming for him. She 

 denies that he has killed anything and gives him no meat. An owl restores 

 his sight. He kills his wife and abandons his children. They follow him to 

 camp but he has them tied to trees and deserted by the people. An old wolf 

 frees them and sends other wolves and coyotes to procure food for them. 



