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you shall say in future speeches, and you will know the manitous 
whom you shall select... You are not to worship me alone here. 
There are manitous to whom you should also pray. So think earnestly 
of me,’’ they were told. 
After he had spoken they ceased seeing him where he had been 
sitting. They only saw the sacred pack. It was in a pile without 
anything else. ‘There it is,’’ they said between themselves. Then, 
it is said, they wrapped it up with bark.? Only the flute was not 
there; that alone was not there. ‘Then it is said (the man) was told 
by his niece, ‘‘Well, my uncle, the flute is not supposed to be there. 
You are to make that which is to be a flute, you are to make it. 
You will know how you are to make it,” he was told by his niece. 
“Oh, that is certainly so, my niece; you have reminded me. I am 
truly not very intelligent, my niece. You verily please me by remind- 
ing me. My niece, keep firmly in mind what he told us. Do not 
think, ‘I~guess ’m not a man.’ Verily our grandfather thought 
of you, my niece; that is why he pitied you,” Black-Rainbow said to 
his niece. ‘‘ You will speak to me, my niece, when I make a mistake.” 
‘All right, my uncle. You are a man and I am a woman. My 
fellow-women are the ones for me to tell, and your fellow-men are 
the ones for you to tell,” he was told by his niece. ‘I declare, my 
niece, that is exactly what you should do,” le said. 
Then they went home. They took the sacred pack along. The 
young man continued on the way in the rear, and the virgin was in 
the lead. Then, it is said, when they came close, he said to her, 
‘Well, my niece, from here on proceed alone. The members of our 
gens are to hunt. We shall celebrate a gens festival,” he said to her. 
Then the maiden departed and told her story. She told their old 
man that they should hunt for game. The old man set the time for 
four days. 
And Black-Rainbow, the one who held the sacred pack in his hands, 
remained standing far off in the same spot. And it is said that he 
was seen by no one. 
And the woman, Deer-Horn, said to their ceremonial attendants, 
“Well, ceremonial attendants, put fresh earth in this wickiup.”’? 
And their dwelling was strewn with fresh earth. Then it is said, 
Black-Rainbow suddenly started to walk. 
Precisely when everything already was put in the kettles to be 
cooked so they might celebrate a gens festival, the owl entered and 
hooted in the space between the fires. All the people heard the owl. 
Then they began to lay the sacred pack in its proper place. The ones 
blessed looked at it intently. 
° Refers only to the fireplace, and where the sacred pack was to be put. 
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