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Lowie, Crow Tobacco Society. 



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3. 



hiren ba+ictacire bi racdeoka a he, hire, hgrehe're, bi 

 These White men me love, hire, hSrehere, me 



raakeoka ahe, hiri, herehere. 

 they have adopted, hfri, herehere. 



4. 



bi, ftsi'tse, bir9xba a kem, bi ik'akawe; 



I the Tobacco plant, am a person, me look at; 



ftsi'tse, bl bacOritsi'tse ik'akawe. 



I am the Tobacco plant, I am the medicine-rock, look at it. 



5. 



6pe ahu'tseruc awaxawe ambaka'kok. 



Tobacco is plenty, it is said on the mountain where I stay. 



ba+apara-r-itsi 

 Some plants good 



tsiciwa hera, 



put on your heads (imperative) ! 



TOBACCO AND OUTSIDERS. 



Though the membership of the society was anciently very much 

 restricted, there was a distinct feeling that the Tobacco was planted on 

 behalf of the entire tribe. Outsiders, to be sure, were not permitted to 

 plant, but they participated in an auxiliary capacity at the garden. Bear- 

 gets-up said that they were allowed to erect a miniature sweatlodge 

 for the Sun in the garden in fulfilment of a vow. Even apart from the 

 ceremony it was possible for them to enter into relations with the Tobacco. 



More particularly, the Tobacco might confer good luck on the 

 members of a war party. These might sing as prayers the Tobacco songs 

 they had heard sung at performances of the ceremony. In lieu of drums 

 they would use any means for producing a noise. Each man would 

 declare that he was imitating So-and-so, mentioning the name of a 

 member of the Tobacco society. "If I am successful and bring back 

 horses," they would say, "I shall give them to So-and-so." One in- 

 formant once imitated Three-wolves, promising to give him a big feast 

 and a blanket in case of martial success. He struck a coup and on his 

 return summoned the Tobacco members and gave them a feast. Ordi- 

 narily people would be afraid of mimicking others in this fashion, but 

 on the warpath it was reckoned a form of prayer. 



