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are gone. He makes another bow and arrows and makes trap by trail, in which 

 he hides himself, placing bow and arrows nearer river. Boy (now grown up) 

 comes. Man catches him. Boy bites and scratches,, but yields. He explains 

 how he came to be alone and takes man where woman was lying. Man bathes 

 him, rubs him with sage and they walk to camp. Moon makes other wife mad 

 by speaking about human wife. Buffalo-Woman starts off with child for 

 their own home, four divides off. Man, very fond of boy, follows and comes 

 to their camping place. Boy tells father distance is great and he had better 

 go back. Cow and calf retire, husband sleeps near. Woman and boy start off 

 early while man is fast asleep. Man follows ; boy advises him to go back, 

 Man refuses. Same thing occurs two following days. Next day man awakes, 

 wife and boy gone. He reaches their camping place in evening. Woman and 

 boy tell buffalo that their son-in-law is in outskirts of camp. They send him 

 pemmican and tipi is put up for him. Father-in-law tells daughter to cover 

 her husband's face with blanket when she brings him. Brother (calf) of the 

 woman is killed for him to eat. Bones are piled up and hide placed over them 

 and calf comes to life again. Husband wants to get out to look around, but 

 father-in-law says it is not necessary, as he is properly fed. Father-in-law 

 causes all people to be provided with meat, which was of human flesh. Moon 

 makes wife and boy go to see strange thing occurring outside. Man makes 

 hole with awl through tipi hide and sees people go to black snag, with hole at 

 bottom, near river, with human tracks near. He sneaks out and sees father- 

 in-law go to black snag with red digging stick, people all standing in two rows. 

 Father-in-law raises stick and strikes snag. Out comes human being who runs 

 swiftly between two rows of people. Father-in-law continually strikes snag, 

 and other human beings come forth. First one has circled around and gone 

 back into hole. Human beings are slaughtered and taken back to camp for 

 use. Wife and boy run to see if man inside. They find him lying on bed. 

 Some time afterwards he tells wife he wishes to go out in mountains for rest, 

 she to come for him. Parents consent. He sharpens two knives and hides 

 them. His wife leads him out, face covered up, to mountain side. He goes to 

 creek bottom and makes arrows and bows, and^ hides them. Wife comes and 

 takes him home. He gets sinew from her. Next morning he is taken out again 

 to mountain side, taking sinew. When alone he searches for feathers. He 

 places feathers on arrows and ties sinew strings to bows. He makes stone ar- 

 row points. Next morning he sends wife to father to ask permission for him 

 to call forth subsistence for people. Father-in-law agrees and man walks 

 toward dead black snag carrying digging stick. Buffalo people found in two 

 fows, looking anxiously at him. He strikes snag and human being comes out 

 running between two rows of people. Moon continues striking and other hu- 

 man beings come forth until they fill space between people. First human being 

 is coming back to snag and Moon strikes it senseless. It is woman with cut 

 nose. He tells her she is one who has ruined human race and that he wants 

 her to behave no longer as she has. She will have that kind of nose to mark 

 her. Moon commands that no more human beings shall be slaughtered. It is 

 agreed with father-in-law and made known to buffalo. Moon gives bows and 

 arrows to human beings for use and protection. Sends son to tell father-in- 

 law that human beings will have changed body. He shall not have speed and 

 his body shall be made up of certain parts. Father-in-law accepts proposition 



