40 ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, [BrH. ANN. 40, 
dog, for it is against Fox religious ideas for the dog to see the one 
who kills him. At the behest of the leader, Harry Lincoln then 
brought down the club with full force. As a matter of fact this 
description applies to the first four dogs alike. The fifth dog may 
face any direction, but he must not see the slayer. Harry Lincoln 
then was asked to appoint a certain person to take care of the first 
dog killed. This fellow was supposed to take care of this dog from 
then on to the end of the performance. The persons who singe 
the hair off the other three dogs take care of them. But the first 
four dogs must be taken care of and kept track of until the end of 
the performance. This applies to the dogs which are eaten. After 
the hair was singed off, the dogs were dressed. After the first dog 
was done it was taken to the summer house. The first four are taken 
care of together. They are placed on the scaffold at the west end 
of the summer house. The first dog faces the east, the second the 
south, the third the west, the fourth the north. The other dogs 
are west of the first four, and they are strung south to west. After 
this is all done two men are appointed, one a Ki‘cko'“* and the 
other a To'kain™*‘, to go all over the village inviting the people. 
This was the way done formerly, but to-day they ask a group of 
ceremonial attendants to go around where they came from and 
invite their neighbors. Time is+saved in this way.? The first 
dog (killed) is cut up in twelve pieces, the next in ten, the next in 
eight, the next in six, and this is a little dog. And the livers are not 
thrown away. The head ceremonial attendant takes them away. 
That is what they do. (Any one not a member of the War gens 
may eat them.—A remark added in English.) And there is sugar 
in a wooden bowl where the singers are seated. It is given to one 
ceremonial attendant. Then they eat it. And as soon as they have 
eaten it all, they turn over the bowl with their heads. They must 
surely use their heads; they must not use their hands.* And when 
this is done they make four holes in the ground, and Indian tobacco 
is placed in them. And they do this: They take a slice of meat 
and rub it on the drum first, and then on the rattles. And it is 
put on the sacred pack. That is another thing they do regarding 
the White Buffalo Sacred Pack. And then the bones are taken 
ninety-nine steps from where the ceremony is held, and thrown 
away; this always when they have eaten the third time.t That is 
what these (people) do in respect to the White Buffalo (Sacred 
Pack). They must do that. And the drum is painted in the early 
spring. This is how it is painted.© As many crosses as are drawn 
2 End of portion dictated in English. 
8 Cf. the Winnebago practice mentioned by Paul Radin, 37th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 346. 
4 Translated rather freely . 
5 A heart with a double curve in it with a cross below it exactly at the center, and a cross over each curve, 
both crosses slightly inclined toward each other. 
