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that wampum string for her own,” he was told. ‘‘Gad! if I had 
known that to be the case in the first place, I should not have killed 
that fellow. My, it’s tiresome,’ he said. ‘‘Tiresome yourself! 
They surely haye a joyous time when they are dancing heartily,” he 
was told. 
Then they began to move. When they arrived near there, one 
was told, ‘Hey, you,” and he went to tell the news in advance. 
Precisely then those villagers came in a group asking where they 
were to have a fine dance. They made (a place) in the middle of 
where they had the village. Now when they arrived there, he was 
met by old men. ‘Yonder verily (is where you are to go),’’ he was 
told. When he was led yonder he was told, ‘‘ Well, go and cut off 
an (oak)-red-paint-tool.’"” As he did not know what that (oak)-red- 
paint-tool was, he went and asked his parents. ‘‘ That, indeed, is 
what is called an (oak)-red-paint-tool; it must be painted red, for 
girls desire that when fasting,’ he was told. Then he went to cut 
it off. When he brought it yonder then he was told by those old 
men how he should make it. After he made it another (stick of 
wood) was erected there, a little crotch (2) was erected in the middle 
of where they were to dance. ‘Well, you must hang there what 
you have brought,” he was told. After he tied the scalp to the 
stick he went and leaned it on the little crotch. ‘‘Go and notify the 
person whoever is to dance with that red-paint-tool,”’ he was told. 
He again went and asked his parents. ‘‘ Now I also do not know 
whom I should call, and I do not know what it is,” he said to his 
parents. “You may call any niece (sister’s daughter) who is not 
bashful,” he was told. Then he went to call his niece; and they 
stopped to eat. 
It was then nearly night. And they (the one blessed and his 
niece) led the dance. She danced with the red-paint-tool. They 
danced a little while in (the real) night. The next day one man 
went around crying out, ‘‘We are to begin dancing in the afternoon. 
We are to stop dancing in the evening,” so he cried as he went about. 
In the afternoon they indeed began dancing. It was cold, but they 
had kindled fires here and there. Those who were cold now and 
then stopped to warm themselves. 
Soon he said to his parents, “‘“When shall we stop having a fine 
time dancing?” ‘Why, any time you have had enough of it,” he 
was told. ‘‘For my part I don’t care to have a fine time dancing,” 
he said. ‘You must go and lean that red-paint-tool against an oak 
tree somewhere, but you must start off walking while you are dancing. 
You must say to the one holding that red-paint-tool, ‘hand it to me. 
You will have that string of wampum beads as your own,’ you must 
say to her. They will stop dancing at once,’ he was told. “Later 
12 A technical name. 
