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feather on the neck. He even sent a woman out on the warpath and she 

 came back victorious. 



Sore-tail said he wished to have a Tobacco dance in the lodge that 

 had been revealed to him. He had many followers and told them he 

 would prepare the tipi for the dance. In the rear he hung up an eagle 

 on a shield. He stripped the eagle tail of its feathers and dyed them red; 

 this was the men's medicine, to be tied to the back of the head. The 

 smaller wing feathers were for the women. He painted the upper part 

 of the face of all the members red, he mixed red and yellow paint, 

 decorating the hair with it and also the men only on each shoulder of 

 their white shirts. On the left shoulder the man had an eagle plume 

 ornamented with blue beads. All the women held an eagle wing during 

 the dance, powdered with red paint, the men had a whip with an attach- 

 ment of bells, which they would swing when rising to dance, at the same 

 time saying: 



I wasacg-e-wic biawa hinnSk'. kam-bebiawam bek\ 



By means my horses to have I wish this. I to own wished I have it. 



(Free translation: By means of this I wish to own horses. I 

 wanted to own it, I am about to own it.) 



In uttering the last word they would press their hand on the breast. 



When rising to dance all the women had to face the mountains, 

 holding their best blanket in the left hand and an eagle fan in the right. 

 Sore-tail would then say: " After the camps are well-settled and when 

 I came, let us sing that song." This was the song: 



aria-k'o borak, bactio dap turn bawik\ 



From the rear when I come, my songs two I shall have. 



miaxbaria b at-bik . 



My medicines I shall carry on my back. 



dia-xaxua dl watsick'atuk. bl wi ik'ara! tsfike 



All of you you are poor. Me me look at! Over the hills 



k'd wa'kuci'we, tstike k'6 bok'. 



there I have stayed, over the hills thence I have come. 



bi rakak' deexem, bok'. tse'tic kuc barlmbik'. 



I am an eagle, I come. Wolf Mountains towards I shall walk. 



Cuts-the-picketed-mule gave the following additional details as to 

 the equipment of members. Sore-tail made a robe from a buffalo hide 

 with the hair; it was supposed to be an Eagle robe and he attached an 



