MICHBLSON ] OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 55 
you who live in health here and your relatives probably surely think 
well of it; and no one would feel badly over it; surely they probably 
- are pleased. This verily is what this grandfather of ours told us 
when he first spoke to us, when he actually spoke to us. We did 
not (merely) have a vision of him. He actually told us most openly. 
We did not make this sacred pack: it was this same grandfather of 
ours. We ourselves did not kill him. Only I was to make the flute,” 
he said. 
‘That is what we did, my friends. We shall be related to owls 
as our grandfather. That is how we shall be related to them. 
(They will be) our grandfathers to all alike,” he said. ‘‘As long as 
the world lasts we shall continue to hear them,” he said to the people. 
‘‘Whenever you hear them you are to make an offering to the 
owls. Do not think of merely hearing them in jest. They are truly 
our grandfathers. This holy skin of ours did not come from simply 
any place, it came from the same place. What would you think? 
You have openly known these (people) to be afflicted with terrible 
diseases. And still they become well. They enjoy good health. 
Certainly we used our eyes when we saw them (regain) good health.”’ 
That, it is said, is what he told the people. 
And he rélated to those giving the gens festival: ‘‘Well, to-day 
we have a sacred pack. We (she and I) do not possess the sacred 
pack alone. You all possess the sacred pack and own it.. If you 
think, ‘I shall celebrate a gens festival,’ you may celebrate a gens 
festival. We (she and I) do not own the sacred pack alone. We 
think of the people alike. We do not think of any one more (than 
another); (we think of you) alike. That is the way you should 
think of them. As many of us as are of the same gens are to think 
alike. In that we should contrive to be well, that is, if we think of 
the people alike. 
‘‘And we shall continue to take care of this pack one after another. 
No one is to take care of it there alone all the time. We shall (all) 
always take care of it and likewise the songs. That is what we 
shall do. You shall firmly remember them, for we are to take them 
to the end of the world. You are to continue to tell this to the future 
generations of the people. You shall continue to tell- each other 
seriously. This has given us a blessing. It is the same as if we 
made it. 
‘‘But we shall not live here forever. We shall die. In fact we 
shall all die. No one of us who exist as mortals here, shall exist as a 
mortal forever. As many of us as blink have death, all of us who 
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