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neck, causing a queer feeling, and entered her stomach. She heard it 

 whistling with all its might. The weasel said, "This is what we want 

 to give you." Then he gave her a whistle and sang this song: 



u u te ik-uctsrruk; 6pe ik'uctsi wa'ts5wik\ 



The weasels are coming out; Tobacco to come out I cause. 



In a Tobacco dance an old man asked her to get up and dance, then 

 Muskrat sang this song. When she awoke, she looked round and saw 

 nothing. Ever since then she has had control over weasels, and through 

 her the Weasel chapter gained its renown. The weasel warned her 

 against having her kidneys struck lest she go into a trance, so other 

 people respect her and take care lest anything bump against her. Only 

 lately she dreamt of owning some weasels and soon after this a weasel 

 was brought to her. 



The most interesting feature of this account is the introduction of 

 the bdtsird'pe motive, which was also encountered in connection with 

 other chapters. A bdtsird'pe is a mysterious animal or object that 

 enters a person's body and part of which is made to come out at a special 

 ceremony called the Bear Song dance. Muskrat added that on another 

 fasting occasion a horse had also entered her body. 



Bear-gets-up described a typical Weasel bundle as containing several 

 stuffed weaselskins (Fig. 2) ; one with a ribbon round the waist after the 

 fashion of a saddle blanket; another with different kinds of yarn braided 

 together for a collar; a third with the same yarn combination unbraided 

 and in the weasel's mouth. In 1911 the informant no longer owned the 

 medicines he had received as a novice because at later adoptions the 

 initiates had chosen some of the medicines from his bag. Some of the 

 Weasel members had otter belts with little hoofs at the end, causing 

 them to make a rattling sound when moved. There was a special song 

 for those having these belts to get up and dance; and when they danced 

 their belts rattled. Some of the other chapters said, " Those are just 

 like Crazy Dogs," whence this name. Once enemies were expected 

 and Bear-gets-up had on his horse a Crazy Dog belt owned by his wife. 

 The man who had originated the Crazy Dog branch came to him and 

 asked him for it, saying, "I do not know whether this is for war, I'll try 

 it." However, it proved a. false alarm, the enemy did not come, and 

 there was no chance to test the virtues of the belt. 



Grandmother's-knife confirmed Bear-gets-up 's statements as to the 

 Crazy Dogs. They are simply a subdivision of the Weasels distinguished 

 by otterskin belts with little bells at the end. They shook these like the 



