MICHBLSON.] THE LITTLE SPOTTED BUFFALO. 523 
And the other half starts: 
T like you surely when you walk about; 
I like you surely when you walk about. 
And that (song) likewise belongs there. In meaning it is a prayer 
in measure. It runs as.if (it were said) a long time ago, “I like to 
accompany you when you walk about.” In a way the sense is, 
“When there is perhaps a war, I wish to accompany you.” 
And likewise another (song) belongs there: 
The buffaloes might council over this earth; 
The buffaloes might council over this earth.!? 
Then they are to dance. And the one who speaks to it (the little 
stone buffalo) stops to talk at length: ‘‘ Well, all of you to whom I 
am related, men, and ye women! In accordance with the way our 
old people were made promises by those who blessed them, we must 
dance vigorously. Verily we must dance, women, youths. If any 
one always dances, his life is surely spoken of there,” is what he 
says. After he says that, the leader is told, ‘Blow your flute.’ 
Then he blows his flute. Those who blow flutes are six in number. 
That is what they do when they first dance. In springtime they 
place leaves at the nape of their necks, and little tails at the regular 
place. The reason leaves are also used is that they as if tell it is 
spring when they are worshipping. 
And when they blow the flutes four times in a circle they as if tell 
the manitous who have well-known places. And sometimes in the 
fall when they are holding festal dances, they would stand up a 
corn-ear and corn-stalk also at the time of the Indian harvest. 
Symbolically they tell that they are cooking the harvest-crop. That 
is what they do. Then they begin to dance. A song is used; when 
they dance the first song goes: 
I wear around my neck for you, I wear around my neck for you; 
I wear around my neck for you, I wear around my neck for you; 
As the buffaloes bellow, so do IJ; 
I wear around my neck for you, I wear around my neck for you. 
That is half of the song which they use first. I shall write the 
other half over the page: 
I wear around my neck for you, I wear around my neck for you; 
As the men say, so do I; 
I wear around my neck for you. 
That is what they would (use). After that is used is as far as one 
song really goes. And another, the second (song) would be used; 
(a song) 1s again started: 
I make the buffaloes stand around; 
I make the buffaloes stand around; 
I make the buffaloes stand around. 
12 ‘“They might have alittle to say about it,”’ is the meaning. 
18 Free translation 
