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additions to their number. The man who started the expedition 
was usually its leader. He had a stiff untanned wolf hide as his 
fetish. He appointed about three scouts, and the leader of these 
carried the wolf hide across his back, the head over his left shoulder, 
and the tail under his right arm. The wolf hide was “incensed” 
with burning sweet grass before it was given to the leader of the 
scouts. It is said that the wolf hide “sometimes came to life, walked 
around, and advised the warriors as to the best course for them to 
pursue.” (A similar tradition among the Sioux is recorded in Bull. 61, 
Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 189; cf. also pp. 348 and 388.) 
The Hidatsa Suttel fe coups to each slain enemy, the feos of 
counting these being designated as follows: The man who killed the 
enemy and the man who first struck him were each entitled to wear 
a plain eagle feather, the second man who struck him wore an eagle 
feather with one diagonal black stripe, the third wore an eagle 
feather with two, and the fourth with three similar black stripes. 
Old Dog said that a woman who had lost a relative in war some- 
times went with a war party, though she had no relative among the 
warriors. She cooked and: mended for them and incited them to 
avenge her relative. If they secured a scalp they gave it to her, and 
she carried it in the victory dance after their return. Scalps were 
dried and kept for a time, after which some put them with their 
medicine and others threw them away. 
