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snow. On account of severe wind he cannot see any distance. Finally he sees 

 White-Owl flying up and down toward him. He turns and sits facing the 

 south, covered with robe. White-Owl produces more wind and snow and 

 alights in front of Blood-Clot-Boy. He speaks of his power and challenges 

 Blood-Clot-Boy to exhibition of power. If he cannot tell of things aright 

 be is to lose his life. White-Owl asks him where he came from. He answers 

 from his father. The storm continues with fury. Then White-Owl asks what 

 is the most useful thing. He says, the eyes and heart, mind and feet, without 

 which a person cannot get to any place. White-Owl then asks which is best 

 benefactor, man or wife. There comes another blizzard and snow is getting 

 deeper all the time. Blood-Clot-Boy says one is benefactor just as much as the 

 other (referring to seeds of man and wife). White-Owl then asks what are 

 the most sacred things (medicine). He replies there are three things, day, 

 night, and earth, but adds, it is medicine (wonder) we sleep at night, that we 

 sit or stand on earth. White-Owl breathes heavily. Storm continues with fury. 

 He then asks what travels swiftly and Blood-Clot-Boy replies hastily, "Eye- 

 sight." White-Owl says he is very cunning, then asks what has many branches 

 and still is very light. Blood-Clot-Boy says, "Eagle breath-feather." Then White- 

 Owl asks him what things never get tired in listening to mankind, and he 

 says tipi pegs are most attentive listeners. To the question, who never gets 

 tired of watching, Blood-Clot-Boy replies, "Eyelids," and when asked, what do 

 we eat to live, "Buffalo meat." White-Owl then asks him how to get weapons, 

 and he describes how to make trap, with wolf as bait, to catch eagles and how 

 to use their feathers. When asked how he would get fire, Blood-Clot-Boy 

 gets flint, stone, dry pith, some grass and dry wood, with which he makes fire. 

 White-Owl remarks he is quite hungry and Blood-Clot-Boy fetches large 

 piece of bark from dead cotton wood tree and then lays next to brush, piece 

 of Cottonwood log. He holds these over the fire. Become roasted tenderloin, 

 juicy tallow, and piece of fat. White-Owl eats but is not satisfied. Blood- 

 Clot-Boy fetches two small buffalo chips and these roast like two fat tur- 

 keys. White-Owl eats these but still asks for more. Blood-Clot-Boy gets big 

 clump of bull's chips and they roast to nice juicy pemrrfican which White- 

 Owl swallows. Blood-Clot-Boy now asks for return treatment, but White- 

 Owl asks him how he makes knife. He says it is made from a buffalo standing 

 vertebra and tendon of neck. White-Owl then grants him to live up to his 

 (White-Owl's) time.— D. 



1 32. — Blood- Clot-Girl. 

 A man abuses his old father-in-law. The old man finds a clot of blood, 

 which becomes a girl. The son-in-law wishes to marry her, but is refused. 

 The old man joins the tribe. The chief's son marries the girl. The old man's 

 wife makes an ornamented tent by sitting on skins. In this Clot-woman and her 

 husband liive. — K. 



133. — Blood-Clot-Girl. 



Two tipis in bottom near river. In one were father, mother and son, in 

 other their son-in-law and his wife. Father and mother dependent on son- 

 in-law, but he is cruel and stingy. Husband kills buffalo cow. Sends wife 



