504 THE LITTLE SPOTTED BUFFALO. [ETH. ANN. 40, 
[I had an opportunity to observe the festival held in connection 
with a sacred pack owned by Mrs. Jack Bullard (married to a Fox 
Indian) on June 8, 1924. Mrs. Bullard is partly Potawatomi, Fox, 
and French. She received the pack from her father, Buck Green, 
a Potawatomi, who received it from his father, Johnny Green. The 
externals of the performance show that it genetically belongs to the 
Fox gens festivals. Thus there are four dances and three eatings, 
the main feast coming after the third dance. Again the eating 
and dancing songs are of general Fox rhythmic character; and 
some of both kinds of songs are identical (with a very few minor 
changes) with songs of the Fox society known as “Those Who 
Worship the Little Spotted Buffalo.” There is a mound of earth 
with four feathers at the west end of the building in which the 
ceremony takes place. Buffalo fur is worn on the head of the 
(male) leader of the dances, and a buffalo tail is fastened at his 
back; and an oak leaf is fastened in the hair of the leading female 
dancer. The pack is placed as is customary in Fox gens festivals. 
Inviting sticks are used. The dog is killed the preceding night. 
Such portions of the prayers as I understood (I had no interpreter) 
were of exactly the same tenor as those of Fox gens festivals. Note 
the speech to the elect after the fourth dance when all have gone 
out. Also the kettles are placed at the east end of the building. 
Flutes are blown at the close of each dance. Note the drum is 
beaten four times before beating it strongly. The use of rattles 
made of gourds with pebbles inside, men employed as smokers, 
the wrapping and contents of the pack, all have Fox counterparts. 
The dancing, too, is of the same type. Subsequently George Green, 
a Winnebago who stays at Tama, lowa, with the Foxes told me 
the songs were Fox. I listened carefully, and can say definitely 
the words of some were patently Algonquian. He also told me 
the Winnebagoes of Nebraska had the bear hide belonging to the 
pack, and that the same ceremony was performed there. In this 
connection it may be observed that the Winnebago have other 
ceremonies related to the Fox gens festivals (see Radin, Bull. 30, 
B. A. E., article Winnebago), but I have not enough information to 
connect them with the particular festival of Those Who Worship 
the Little Spotted Buffalo. Addition, November, 1924.] 
It is unfortunate that there is so little published data on ceremonies 
connected with sacred packs of such tribes as the Sauk, Kickapoo, 
and Potawatomi. Enough, however, is known of Sauk sacred packs 
(see M. R. Harrington, loc. cit.) to know that at least in a general 
way they correspond to those of the Foxes; and I have seen the 
dancers dance out in a buffalo dance at the close of the last dance. 
Enough is not known to make detailed comparisons; so as yet we 
do not know to what extent the features mentioned above are com- 
