248 THE WINNEBAGO TRIBE Ieth. ann. 37 



The four cardinal points and the winds that are there, they are in 

 control of. If on a very nice day a deer's voice is heard, that day 

 will become bad, and if on a very bad day a deer's voice is heard, 

 that day will become nice. The deer people are those who are in 

 control of the weather. And they also have a name, He^oho-plays- 

 with-the^nds, and a woman is called She^who-goes-with'the-wind. 

 The deer would always sit with the wind back of them. Thus they 

 roamed all over the earth. Not one place on this earth did they miss. 



Once, when they had come home, their eldest brother suddenly 

 fell down (dead). "What is the matter?" they said. And the 

 second-born said, "Our oldest brother is not saymg anything; I 

 don't know what the matter is." And then they asked their youngest 

 brother and he said, "Our oldest brother is dead. That is the way 

 Earthmaker arranged things." And then he talked to the dead 

 brother and he said, "Earthmaker has made a place for you to go 

 to now that you are dead. You have not attained a large share of 

 life and you have left us who remain on the earth in a pitiable con- 

 dition. But now that you are going home I want to ask you some- 

 thing. Those years that are still coming to you, distribute among 

 your relatives. This I beg of you. And this is the second request: 

 May the warpaths that you did not go on (by reason of your death), 

 may the war honors that you did not obtain, may all these things 

 be distributed among us. This I ask of you, my dear brother. And 

 this is the third request: May the food that you did not eat, the nuts, 

 the sweet fruits, etc., all that you liked on earth, may it all be dis- 

 tributed among us. This is what I ask of you. And this is the 

 fourth request, my dear older brother: May all the wearing apparel 

 that belonged to you as well as all the materials that you stored in 

 back of your tent, never to be touched by you, but may we who are 

 left behind use it all. This I ask of you. Wherever you are going, 

 may these requests of those whom you left here behind on earth be 

 before you." 



Then the younger brother took some red pamt and he said, "Brother, 

 I am going to paint you. Thus they will recognize you at home. 

 That is the way we will always do it hereafter. Those who are to 

 live after us will paint us in the same way. Now this is the manner 

 of painting. The forehead and the corners of the eye are to be 

 painted in black and red streaks, respectively, and the chin and the 

 front part of the throat are to be painted red." Then he dug a 

 grave. Then they buried him. Then they sang the songs and when 

 they were fuiished with this, they traveled around the earth and 

 came to the gatheruig place of the clans. When they came to that 

 place they were people — i. e., human beings. They lived their own 

 life just as they had as deers. All the incidents of their traveling 

 as well as all the characteristics of deers were used in the names 



