MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 123 
Then the wind stopped blowing, after the wind blew twenty times 
toward him. He was sitting there all the while. “O, how strange! 
It is an unusual experience which I just had,” he thought. Then he 
realized on what he had been sitting. ‘‘That is right,” it said to 
him. He jumped down and went away. He then placed his sacred 
pack on his back, carrying it on his back. Then, it is said, night 
came upon him, while he was yet some ways off. Soon, while he 
was walking along, it became daylight. ‘Well, I wonder what is 
this for?” he thought. He stopped and stood there. Just the way 
he was going, there was the light. “Now, I am going over that way,” 
he thought. ‘Whatever may happen to me, anyhow, I am carrying 
along this big thing on my back,” he thought. 
When he came to where light was, lo! there also he saw gourds; four 
were tied together. He picked them up. Then he continued on 
with a heavier load on his back. He liked to hear the gourds as 
they were rattling along. When he almost arrived where they lived 
he continued on his way slowly. Just as he stepped into their 
dwelling, he stumbled and fell down. His gourds made a great 
racket. As many as heard them liked to hear them very much. 
“Well, what pray is it, that I like to hear so very well?” they thought. 
Then it is said the next day he hired one man. “Now, tell those 
of this name, to bring together some food here. We are going to 
hold a gens festival, we are going to give a dance,” he said to him. 
Then it is said he went about informing them. He went around 
notifying only those whom he was instructed to tell. At the given 
date they brought together the things. ‘Each and every one of 
you are to come early,” he told those giving the gens festival. Then 
it is said early the next day they had all come. Both the invited 
people and the ceremonial attendants were far advanced in their 
work. Some (of the people) did not stop to cook but went right 
over there. 
The vision he had in his dream was just what he did. He was 
making a speech. He was speaking just like the one spoke of whom 
he had dreamed. He was listened to very closely by his fellow- 
people. By some he was heard with pleasure. Then it is said after 
he had completed his speech, ‘‘ Now, ceremonial attendant, take this 
down which is hanging up,” he said. The one acting as ceremonial 
attendant took the sacred pack down. ‘‘Now the gourds,” he was 
told. 
He did not understand what were called the ‘“gourds.’’ As he 
had not understood, ‘‘ Here these are hanging,” he was told. 
