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privilege to Old-dog; he is also the Tobacco-lighter at an adoption. On 

 the other hand, Banks is the owner of the adoption lodge and Banks's 

 wife distributes food among the members, whether because of her hus- 

 band's ownership of the lodge or not is not quite certain. 



The Strawberry chapter has for its emblems wreaths of artificial 

 flowers and in dancing the members hold chokecherry leaves. 



OTTER CHAPTER. 



The membership of this chapter has been greatly reduced, at least 

 in the Lodge Grass district, where Young-crane enumerated only herself, 

 Bad-heart, Bear-don't-walk's wife, Bull-weasel's wife and Crazy-head's 

 second wife as surviving members. When Hunts-the-enemy was living, 

 they still had a place for themselves in the Tobacco garden, but since 

 they no longer have a Mixer they have ceased to plant as a body. Young- 

 crane no longer plants at all, the rest associate with other chapters. 

 While the members had otterskin emblems in fact, I purchased the 

 one Young-crane had received at her initiation it appears from other 

 statements that otterskins were also held by dancers of other chapters. 



Grandmother's-knife said that at Lodge Grass the Otter and 

 Tobacco chapters are at present associated; the Strawberry chapter is 

 an offshoot from the Otter branch (see p. 117). 



From Lone-tree of the Bighorn district I secured the words of two 

 Otter songs : 



1. 



bira bawaci'rak'; bira bawek. 



My own (dream) I dreamt; my own (property) I owned. 



hiren ik'akawe! awe k-ota fk-akawe! 



These look at them! The country whole look at it! 



2. 



baricik', bawtic-biawak. bi wakatsik', biricbi biawak. 

 I am hungry, I want to eat. I am thirsty, I want to drink. 



It is possible that the otter medicine which plays so important a part 

 in the planting ceremony is in some way associated with the Otter 

 chapter. In 1910 1 secured a dewclaw rattle patterned on that of the Big 

 Dogs, but shorter and more elaborately decorated, with plumes, strings 

 of beads, strips of ermine skin, and small bags enclosing Tobacco seeds. 1 



J For illustration, see vol. XI of this series, 177. 



