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ARAPAHO BEDS 



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happens in this fevered mental condition, and instead of Ids father 

 he found a moose standing by bis side. Such transformations are 

 frequently noted in the Ghost-dance songs. 



0. E'yehe'! \Yi nayi'uhu' 



E'yehe' ! Wft'nayu'uhu' — 

 E'yehe' ! Wft'nayu'uhu' — 

 A'ga'na . 

 A'ga'nii'. 



Translation 



E'yehe .' they are new — 

 /■' yehe 1 .' they are new — 

 The bed coverings, 

 The bed coverings. 



The composer of this song is a woman who, in her trance, was taken 

 to a large camp where all the tipis were of clean new buffalo skins, 

 and the beds and interior furniture were all in the same condition. 



Fig. 89 — Bed of the prairie tribes. 



The bed of the prairie tribes is composed of slender willow rods, 

 peeled, straightened with the teeth, laid side by side and fastened 

 together into a sort of mat by means of buckskin or rawhide strings 

 passed through holes at the ends of the rods. The bed is stretched upon 

 a platform raised about a foot above the ground, and one end of the 

 mat is raised up in hammock fashion by means of a tripod and buck- 

 skin hanger. The rods laid across the platform, forming the bed proper, 

 are usually about 3i or 4 feet long (the width of the bed), while those 

 forming the upright part suspended from the tripod are shorter as they 



