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All the seven original members ran across the field, i.e., each in turn sang a song and 

 had a runner run across the plots. After marking the ground the founder called the 

 young men and women to plant the Tobacco. 



When the seven had done, they went home, prepared food and sang. Before moving 

 camp the next morning the visionary ordered the other members to take trade tobacco, 

 mix it with fat from the back of a buffalo and lay it under the head of their pillow. 

 They moved a short distance. They camped four times before making their final 

 departure from the garden; every night the seven men sang. The founder said, "You 

 may go where you please and hunt buffalo." When the chokecherries had formed 

 balls, they planted; when the cherries were ripe, they got the crop. On the fourth 

 day after the planting they looked at the spot, and the dirt had raised a little. On 

 the seventh day 1 they went back again and one of the seven members reported that 

 the plant was just coming out. On the tenth day a third one went to see the garden 

 and reported, "Its belly is above the ground (ere aivisdk'}. On the fourteenth day a 

 fourth man went and reported, "It is growing all right." When the berries are ripe, 

 the white flower is on the Tobacco plant; when the seeds are black they pick them. 

 The seven gathered the seeds. Some were marked with stars; these were taken on 

 the warpath, some used a string of them as a necklace, others tied them to the back 

 of the head. In sighting the enemy's camp they sang a Tobacco song and pointed 

 towards the camp, saying, "I'll take a gun," or "I'll take a horse." The seven 

 original members adopted others, and thus the society grew. 



At the first planting one of the original members slept at the garden, heard a 

 song and saw the raising of the pipe, which is put forward and raised a little higher 

 at the close of each successive song until at the close of the fourth it is pointed straight 

 up. This man bade the Crow dance with the pipe at the end of the ceremony in order 

 to aid the growth of the Tobacco. The privilege of dancing with the pipe is now (1911) 

 monopolized by two women, one of whom is Among-the-grass. 



Little-rump gave the following fragmentary account: 

 Before there were any horses a young man was fasting on several mountains and 

 during his quest he came over the divide by the Musselshell River. While crossing 

 it he got to a wooden gun rod, to which a paunch (eraxe fee) was tied. He looked 

 round, but no one was there. He heard someone talking inside the paunch. He took 

 it under his blanket and heard it talk, saying, "When you go to the enemy, let us get 

 out." When he got to the enemy he opened the bag and men came out of it. They 

 killed the enemy, bringing back scalps and guns, then re-entered the paunch. He 

 went to another tribe, opened his paunch and let the men get out. They brought 

 back horses, which he distributed among the Crow. Later he achieved much through 

 the paunch, killing enemies and bringing horses. The Crow raised the horses and 

 were not so poor as before. The visionary did not tell the other Indians about his 

 paunch. He went out to drive buffalo towards the camp and became chief of the 

 entire tribe. When old he dreamt songs through the paunch. When very old, he 

 took out its contents and planted them in the ground. Some others helped him. After 

 it grew, they tied it up in bags, and when any of the men went on a war party they 

 took one of the bags along and killed the enemy or brought back horses. The paunch- 

 owner lived to be very old, so old that his skin would tear. He had a son and gave him 



!It is not certain from my notes whether this means after the planting or after the first inspection; 

 I incline to the latter view. 



