Abstracts — Dorsey and Kroeber. 471 



scalps. Man (Nih'a°5a°) asks Found-in-Grass to transfer bag to him that 

 he may conquer nations too. He does so and instructs Nih'a°(;a° how to use 

 It. Nih'a°ga° goes alone, comes to enemy's camp and drives herd, of ponies 

 homeward. Enemy overtakes him and he finds breastwork on hill. Enemy 

 charges him. He opens bag and out come thousands of warriors who chase 

 and kill enemy, taking scalps. Enemy is totally massacred. Nih'a^^a'* returns 

 with scalps and gives wolf-cry. Nih'a°ga° tells his adventure and there are 

 scalp-dances. Nih'a^ga"* twice goes on war-path and returns victorious. Fourth 

 time he goes and meets enemy's camp. He kills people until he is shot dead. 

 One of those gathered around him shoots at bag and from it come warriors 

 charging upon the people. People soon massacred. Nih'a'^ga^ killed because 

 he neglects bag. Men from bag return to camp taking several scalps with them 

 and make wolf-cries. They parade around camp-circle on horseback. After 

 I>arade warriors go to Found-in-Grass' tipi and are put away in new bladder 

 bag. Found-in-Grass finds body of Nih'a^^a'^ and resurrects him and brings 

 him back to tribe. — D. 



142. — Found-in-Grass. 



A man who goes hunting forbids his wife to look if any one should come. 

 Tangled-hair comes and shouts, but she does not look at him. The fourth 

 time she looks and he enters the tent. With difficulty she satisfies him with 

 regard to plates. He kills her and throws her unborn boys away, one behind 

 the door and one into a spring. The man returns and mourns for his wife. 

 When he returns again he finds his arrows scattered. He watches and finds 

 his two boys playing. He catches one, and then this one entices the other 

 from the spring and the man catches him too. The boys tell him to mak«j 

 bows for them and a sweat-house for their mother. They shoot up in the air 

 until their mother leaves the sweat-house alive. The man tells his sons not to 

 go near Tangled-hair. They visit him, louse him until he sleeps, tie his hair 

 fast, and kill him by putting hot stones into his open head. Their father warns 

 them not to go to a stream. They go there. A water monster fails to drowa 

 them. They ride on him and kill him. Their father forbids them to go to a 

 mountain. They go there and find young thunders, whom they kill. They 

 are pursued by the old thunder. They challenge her to pull their elastic arrows 

 from a rock. She attempts to do so and is dashed to death. When their father 

 forbids them to shoot prairie chickens in the sage brush, they do so. On their 

 way home a storm comes and Spring-child is blown away by the wind. He is 

 found in the grass by an old woman and lives with her. A man announces 

 that he who captures a porcupine shall marry his daughter. The boy traps 

 a porcupine, which the crow steals. The crow marries the man's older daugh- 

 ter, and when the boy claims that he caught the porcupine he is given the 

 younger daughter. At night he becomes a handsome young man, but the older 

 sister ridicules him. Then the boy turns to a handsome young man and 

 makes buffalo for the people, who kill many. His sister-in-law falls in lovi- 

 with him. — K. 



