HARRINGTON 



FOLKWAYS 



397 



The Buffaloes 



Tlie Picuris Indians used to go buffalo hunting among the plains 

 of Mora, as the buffaloes were then plentiful there. As late as the 

 time when nij' uncle was a 3'oung man, the buffaloes existed in great 

 abundance. I still remember him saying that he once saw them on 

 the plains of Mora as thick as the pinyon trees that grow in the moun- 

 tains. It seems strange that these animals should disappear so 

 quickh'. I suppose after guns were introduced they were all killed off. 



The Indians say that the buffaloes never lived in the mountains, 

 but they used to live on the plains, eating the grass there lilce cows. 

 I believe that this is the reason that the buffaloes never lived near 

 the Rio Grande. 



Nowadays the buffalo hides are very scarce, and also the horns 

 of the buffalo and anything else pertainmg to the buffalo. These, 

 also, are beginning to be forgotten. The hides which the Indians 

 used in former times to put over them when they danced the buffalo 

 dance, and those that they used in their ceremonial dances, and those 

 that the}' used to spread as mats on their floors, are nowadays 

 very rarely seen. 



The following song was used by S^qgerepove'eng (see p. 323) and 

 is still used by Picuris hunters for bringing deer by magical means 

 withm shooting range. 



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J^ = 152 



NO. 11. DEER SUMMONIXG SOXG 



Transcription by Helen 11. Roberts. 



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'§n - tci '?n - tci law - paw. 



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'§ii-tci '§Q - tci law - paw. 



TRANSLATION 



The meaning is obscure with the exception of 'Qntci, he will come. 



