1920.] Lome, Crow Tobacco Society. 129 



After returning from this vision Big-shoulderblade told the Indians about it, 

 but they were skeptical. However, he set out on a war party with Plenty-coups and 

 killed a young enemy just as old as his brother. Then he became a leader of a war 

 party and made the Buffalo dance. Afterwards Leads-the-wolf adopted him into the 

 Tobacco chapter. Big-shoulderblade made caps for his adoptive sons and named 

 the chapter for the Buffalo. Hence Pretty-enemy considers the Buffalo and Tobacco 

 chapters identical. 



The women put red paint in small patches on each cheek and on the 

 forehead. Since Big-shoulderblade's decease White-maii-runs-him is 

 Painter. He also has a buffalo horn cap obtained through adoption by 

 Big-shoulderblade's children. The first of these caps was made for 

 Red-wolf's brother, who on being adopted by the founder was called 

 He-has-the-horns. All the men wore a piece of buffalo tail on their hats. 

 A buffalo tail was also decorated with little bells and made into a horse's 

 necklace; furthermore, from the chest part of the buffalo hide they made 

 an object to be worn over the horse collar by the horses. 



EAGLE CHAPTER. 1 



In the generation preceding that of Cuts-the-picketed-mule a man 

 named Sore-tail had a vision which led him to institute this chapter. 



Sore-tail had been the poorest man of all until he went out to the Wolf Moun- 

 tains in quest of a revelation; he did not even have a horse to ride. The Sun was his 

 medicine 2 and visited him as he was lying on his blanket, saying, " I will send my 

 messenger to you." The Eagle was his messenger; on arriving he said to Sore-tail, 

 " You shall be poor no more, the butte of the Wolf Mountains shall be your home." 

 Then he saw a tipi with a special number and arrangement of poles: there were four 

 main poles, eleven poles on each side, and two on each side of the doorway. It was 

 ornamented with differently colored streamers. 



After his vision, when they moved camp he had seven mules to 

 carry his tipi poles and he came to have a herd of from seventy to a 

 hundred horses. His daughter had elk teeth down to her feet ; she would 

 always stay in the rear of the tent, and her part was fixed with red flannel. 

 His sister-in-law used nothing but a striped blanket, his wife a white 

 and red blanket. The backrest frame was very high and was covered 

 by two buffalo hides on each side; he had a special horse to transport 

 it. His children were ornamented with shells. There was no one in camp 

 like him, he was by far the richest of all the Crow. Anyone wishing to 

 go on the warpath consulted him, and he sent them out with a blue 



l nakdka means " bird," nakak-deaxe, " eagle," but the specifying adjective is often omitted, the 

 eagle being designated as the bird par excellence. 



2 The statement was added that Sore-tail was the owner of a medicine doll, such as was used in the 

 Sun dance, but whether it was acquired before, at, or after the vision described is not certain. 



