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her and she asks him if he has wished to marry her. He agrees to take 

 her and go home with her. They start off and come cross river and land at 

 big tipi facing toward sunrise. It has sun disc at back and four smaller 

 discs in front and is decorated with rattle pendants and porcupine quill. They 

 enter tipi and when night comes on they go to bed. Before sunrise, woman 

 goes out, leaving man in bed. Husband awakes and sees buffalo cow grazing 

 few paces from bed, which is buffalo wallow. Tipi has disappeared as woman 

 went out of it. She changed into buffalo cow. Man gets" up and advances 

 toward cow, which turns around and becomes woman again. They journey 

 on to another divide and after wading river come to big tipi, well ornamented. 

 They enter and when night comes,- retire. In morning, tipi disappears and 

 woman again turns to buffalo cow, but becomes real woman when husband 

 walks toward her. They go on again and have similar experience, which 

 occurs also on two following days. After wading across river on last day they 

 come to big camp-circle, illuminated, just after sunset. Woman is to be very 

 quiet and go ahead. She throws her robe over him that they may appear as 

 one person going to her father's tipi. They enter and father is pleased to 

 have son-in-law. He tells daughter to kill one of her little brothers and boil 

 him for man's meal. She kills him with club. Father tells her to be care- 

 ful in skinning his hide and to lay it aside in heap. The boys were yellow 

 calves, brothers-in-law to the new husband. When calfs hide thrown in heap 

 it becomes live animal again. Husband is not permitted to go out alone. On 

 three occasions father tells daughter to keep husband inside for certain length 

 of time,. There was to be a round-up of game, into camp-circle, and every- 

 body would have to receive blessing. On fourth day father cautions daughter 

 again. When all people gone, husband pierces tipi with awl and peeps out. 

 He sees vast multitudes standing in two rows from black cottonwood snag. 

 Close to snag is man with big club, ready to strike. As man strikes snag, 

 people come out from base. First comes person with cut nose. He runs at 

 full speed between lines and returns, going into butt of snag, after immense 

 number of Ijuman beings have come into camp-circle and become victims, 

 they are chased throughout camp-circle and slaughtered for food. Husband 

 'thinks of unmerciful slaughter, and after some time has elapsed tells wife he 

 wishes to call for general round-up. Wife tells father, who agrees and says 

 husband is to designate day. Wife then pregnant. Husband sends her to tell 

 father he would do act to-morrow. He then makes bow of last rib, with two 

 red and two black arrows. Wife tells father, who has just eaten liis meal of 

 human flesh. Husband commands wife to make pemmican out of brother-in-law's 

 fesh. When wife prepares pemmican she gives birth to boy. Husband goes 

 to black snag carrying bow with four arrows and pemmican. People from 

 camp line up ready to receive blessing- and have big slaughter again. He takes 

 big stick and strikes snag with all his might. Out comes person with cut nose, 

 running at full speed toward slaughter place. Husband strikes snag continu- 

 ously and vast number of human beings come out from butt. Cut- Nose has 

 returned to snag and is about to enter when husband strikes him dead. He 

 ihen calls to people to come back and taste pemmican. They return, take a bite 

 of pemmican and are saved from death. Husband is chief of big camp-circle 

 of human beings. Other people become enraged and decide that Lone-Bull 

 shall challenge husband for exhibition of power. Winner to have ruling power. 



