328 PEEPAEING FOE THE WAE-DANCE. 



head, he would go off at full speed, not seeming to mind being 

 thrown down when he came to the end of his rope, for he 

 would try it again till he had pulled the picket-pin out, when 

 he would go off to the nearest horse and gallop round him, 

 winding him up in the rope, and throwing him, the result being 

 that he would get up and rush off, tearing up his pin, the grey 

 going on to one after another until he had them all loose. I 

 tried tying his rope to a halter, but he would still manage it, 

 so I made a fetlock-strap and tied it to that when I had him, 

 and he never got away afterwards. 



It was now time to go to Tendons camp for the dance, so 

 Fishel and I started, meaning to remain away five or six days. 

 We got to the camp the same night, and Teiidoi seemed glad 

 to see us, and set apart a portion of his lodge for our use ; and 

 this time we had brought our own blankets, and had the lodge 

 well swept out and fresh pine-boughs put down before making 

 our beds. 



The war-dance was coming off the next day, so we passed 

 the interval in going round among the lodges, making the 

 acquaintance of the principal Indians, and had to eat some- 

 thing in each tepe and smoke in most of them. The Crows 

 had erected their lodges close to those of the Bannocks, and 

 we went to see them also, finding them very busy painting one 

 another for the dance, the toilet taking a full day. One of 

 them had white rings round his eyes, and a white line following 

 each rib, while another had red and black stripes running side 

 by side the whole length of his body, no two Indians being 

 alike. The squaws seemed as proud as their husbands in this 

 dress, or rather undress, as a lady in civilization might be to see 

 hers in a general's uniform. The following day the Crows got 



