1920.] Lowie, Crow Tobacco Society. 193 



the two old people. They began to sing a song and at its close they 

 pushed him forward and he ran across the garden. This was Child-in- 

 the-mouth himself and when at the other end he looked and saw guns, 

 arrows and bows in front of him ac the other end of the garden. These 

 represented the number he was going to take from the enemy. He re- 

 turned to the old couple and the man asked him what he had seen. He 

 replied, "Plenty of bows and arrows; it is going to be a good year for 

 the whole tribe." The old man began to sing a song of rejoicing. Then 

 he said, "My child is always going to have good luck henceforth; he 

 will have plenty of horses and be wealthy." 



Suddenly Child-in-the-mouth awoke. The sun was high. These 

 was no sound from the camp. He walked home and got there. The 

 people were bringing in buffalo meat; he had none but had to beg others 

 for some. That night he put his medicine in place and dreamt further 

 about Tobacco. This time the old man bade him look outdoors, and he 

 saw a gray mare about to give birth to a colt, a white horse. Soon after 

 Child-in-the-mouth went on a war party and captured the gray horse he 

 had dreamt about. The day after his return he went to hunt buffalo 

 and found a stray fat sorrel mare, got it, and killed a fat buffalo, packing 

 the meat on his mare and leading the gray horse. Thus he had two 

 horses. When the camp moved, his wife rode the gray and himself the 

 sorrel. They had pack horses besides. He felt proud now, went on a 

 party and stole another Sioux horse. He set out toward Tongue River, 

 sighted enemies, sneaked round in the dark and stole a buckskin. The 

 enemies pursued him, but he escaped by swimming the river. Thus he 

 had four horses. He went against the Sioux again, killed a man, struck 

 a first coup, and took a gun. He went against the Piegan, two of whom 

 were killed by the Crow. Child-in-the-mouth struck them and took 

 their guns, the ones he had seen when running across the garden in his 

 dream. 



All this happened before my informant entered the Tobacco society. 

 Later the Crazy Dog chapter adopted him. He has never been poor 

 since, but always had plenty, went to war after that, and came to rank 

 as a chief. 



SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. 



It remains to consider the Tobacco complex as to its place in tribal 

 life and to connect its constituent features with other elements of Crow 

 ceremonialism and with the observances of neighboring tribes. 



