MICHELSON.] WHITE BUFFALO’S LEFT-HOOF SACRED PACK. 913 
And they are only to wear eagle-feathers in their hair, (as) that is 
the way the men dancers please the sight of the White Buffalo. It 
is said that they would especially wear these in their hair during gens 
festivals. 
And the women would paint their faces with paint that was red. 
It is said such was their guise. Whenever women have painted their 
faces, they would think of that which is right. 
That White Buffalo is the one who gave those little sacred packs 
so that he might not look after too many things. And those watch 
over a dancer alone. That is the wish of the White Buffalo. 
Tt is said that if he were alone he would not properly look after 
the people. He would not know those who were doing right. Again, 
he would not know those who were doing wicked things. It is said 
this was the reason why he made a sacred pack of his left hoof. 
Indeed the White Buffalo (had given) himself. 
And he appointed some manitous, those indeed who lived up- 
rightly, those indeed who did not exaggerate their speech in any- 
thing, manitous who did not (hide) anything in their hearts secretly. 
Those are the ones who are in that sacred pack. They are the ones 
to watch over things. Still they were to be a power only in one way, 
e. g., when they were truly watching. 
The White Buffalo himself told them how they must think quietly of 
them. ‘You will not think evil of those you bless. Indeed you must 
think of them in a way that is exceedingly right. I say this to you: 
‘The dancers are they whom you are to think about only as long 
as they continue to dance vigorously together.’ You are to do what 
I have said to you, only when I am being worshipped. Still, indeed 
you must try hard to help me. Do not think of fooling me. As for 
me, I shall only be there to think about their lives,” he said to them. 
“As many ways as I am different here, indeed just so will I make 
you watch (for me),” he said to them. 
It is said that the little sacred pack, the White Buffalo’s watcher, 
was tied up separately. 
Indeed the people of long ago knew it to be truly so. They found 
out that it was so, true enough. They loved it very much. 
At any time they had a dance, they believed that there was a mani- 
tou within. Indeed, the people strongly followed that kind of wor- 
ship. Whenever they would say “‘It is said the White Buffalo is to 
be worshipped,” every one of them would move. The (people) 
would have already gone early into the place where they were going 
to have the gens festival. 
