MICHELSON. ] THE LITTLE SPOTTED BUFFALO. 535 
be it, these smokers, so be it, will be kindly blessed by those who 
have been dedicated the (tobacco), so be it. And then they, so be it, 
who are worshipped, so be it, in turn would be mindful when they 
lit their pipes, so be it. Oh that is all I can remember in the speech, 
so be it, (and) that when there is eating we must not look that way. 
They, those who formerly were engaged in speaking for (this) religion 
for a little while, must have been given knowledge of (how to do so), 
so be it; but I just do so (without special knowledge), so be it; 
I do not know what I should do. That is as much as I shall say in 
making my badly broken speech, so be it, all ye to whom I am related.” 
That is as far as he would speak. 
And then the ceremonial attendants would be given instructions 
again. (One) would be told by the man celebrating the gens festival, 
“Well, you who are acting as a ceremonial attendant, go and throw 
these bones away,’ so he is told. Gad! I have made an error in 
telling about it. First of all the ceremonial attendant would be 
told, ‘Cover and tie up these (contents of the sacred pack). You 
will even stop to fumigate this grandfather of ours (i. e., the little 
stone buffalo). Then he would cover and tie them up, and even- 
tually he would go to hang them up; he would go and hang them 
where they had hung. And then he eventually would be told this, 
“You will carry back the earth which was used in making the ridge 
where that little buffalo stood to where you got it from.”” Then he 
would go to throw away the earth and he would place that earth 
whence he got it. He might fetch tobacco with (the earth) so that 
he would throw it away there together with (the earth). After he 
came back he would also be told, “You will burn a few bones; we 
shall burn out our foes.”’ And then he would be told, “‘ You will 
pile up some of the bones on the east side of an oak tree, dog bones.” 
And when he came back again he would (be told), “ You will go and 
hang up these puppies. If they are four in number, you will hang 
one facing the east, one the south, one the west, one the north; you 
will tie them that way.’’ I shall tell what these puppies are for. 
Always they tie a little bundle of tobacco on the right fore leg and on 
the right hind leg, and then on the left side. They tie little bundles 
of tobacco on both sides. And then tobacco is placed around his 
neck like a necklace. And the one that is facing the east in a way is 
given a message, for that puppy is in a way employed to go and 
fetch tobacco for the manitou who is yonder in the east, and this is 
what he must say to him, “Well, they send this tobacco by me to 
bring to you. This verily is what I was told to say to you, ‘you 
in turn will take pity on them and give them life, and, it is said, you 
will grant them whatever they ask. In turn you will turn to them 
