Abstracts — Dorsey and Kroeber. 473 



announcement. People surround animals, • get immense supply of beef and 

 bring teeth and hides to Elk-Woman. Then Buffalo-Woman starts off. Hus- 

 band follows her and brings her back. Buffalo-Woman tells of buffalo. Peo- 

 ple are successful, all well supplied. Tongues and hearts given to Buffalo- 

 Woman. Elk- Woman again runs away. Husband brings her back. Meanwhile 

 Buffalo-Woman gets away. He starts in search for her, but says in cnse of 

 any mishap a cloud of dust will reach to sky. He passes two camp-circles, 

 discovers tracks of wife and child, like those of buffalo cow and calf. Soon 

 sees herds of buffalo, cow and calf among them. Boy (calf) tells him that 

 chief bull, his grandfather, is cruel to strangers, and to cover his face. 

 Calf-Boy leads Blue-Feather, his head covered, to main herd. Calf-Boy tells 

 grandfather his own father has come after him, but grandfather says he shall 

 not escape unless he can identify him from the rest of calves. Calf-Boy tells 

 father he will shake right ear and move left foot. All calves are alike and as 

 he tries to identify boy all shake right ear and move left foot. Fourth time, 

 he comes behind young calf, who shakes right ear and moves left foot, and 

 says that is Calf-Boy. Grandfather says father must dance with them four 

 nights and four days. Calf-Boy is allowed to dance for father, who has only 

 two legs. Then grandfather says they are to have a race and he allows Calf- 

 Boy to run for his father. Blue-Feather ties his eagle feather headdress to 

 Calf-Boy's tail. Main-Bull, with assistance of minor bulls, sings four songs 

 and at close starts race to high hill and back. Calf-Boy in lead, on account of 

 breath-feathers. Buffalo when running fall down hill. Some are killed, 

 others crippled, but Calf-Boy wins race. Grandfather now says there will be 

 myths, tales and stories for four days and nights and father will have to listen. 

 Oldest bulls, steers and cows gather in circle, rest of buffalo sit down to lis- 

 ten. Calf-Boy determines to sit close to father and gets stick. At daybreak, 

 on third night. Blue-Feather falls asleep and snores. Story ends. Calf-Boy 

 tries to wake him up. He only raises his head. Buffalo walk over Blue- 

 Feather and trample him in dust. Cloud of dust rises to sky. People at camp- 

 <;ircle see the cloud and know that Blue-Feather has perished. Birds and ani- 

 mals are employed to search for body. Crow" gets to spot and hears person 

 groaning, but fails to find remnants of BluerFeather, so with other birds. Blue- 

 Bird arrives and finds tiny piece of eagle breath-feather groaning. Blue- 

 Bird takes it to camp-dircle and drops it in center. People erect sweat-lodge 

 and take it inside. Son of Blue- Feather (by Elk- Woman) comes out with bow 

 and foil! arrows, two black, two red. Boy takes black arrow and shoots it up 

 in air and says in loud voice. "Get out of way, father!" Sweat-lodge moves 

 at bottom. Shoots red arrow, crying as before. Lodge moves on sides. Shoots 

 black arrow. Sweat-lodge moves at top. Walks away quite a distance and 

 shoot.' red arrow and says, "Get out of way, father! Get out!" Blue-Feather 

 -comes out, alive, brushing his hair,, and looking around camp-circle. — D. 



146. — Blue-Feather and Lone-Bijll. 



Man on journey strikes trail of woman. He wishes he could overtake 

 and marry hef. He starts in direction of trail and comes to bunch of blue- 

 stem grass and finds pieces of sinew and trimmings of moccasins. He comes 

 to several such places and finally sees sitting woman with beautiful painted 

 robe, mending moccasins. He stoops to take look at her face. He speaks to 



