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was going to show them. When they were all sitthig stOl, | Head- 82 

 Princess arose. She carried her basket, | and she spoke. She said, 

 "Thank you, fathers, | for having come quickly. Indeed, I am a 

 wise woman, for my father || wishes me alone to do what we are here 85 

 for; and this is | the way of working the winter dance for which we 

 are assembled here. Now you have come, | fathers, to see the lasso 

 which we use for catching the ghost-dancer | Qlex'sesElas (V 4). 

 This is the lasso of my ancestors for the ghost-dancer, | and you came 

 for this reason. Now let us go and catch || Qlex'sesElas (V 4). You 90 

 will all be invited by YaqEyalisEm (V 7), | and you shall all sit 

 together. The cannibal-dancer shall sit down | in the rear of the 

 house when this hole will be covered over, | that nobody may come . 

 near to it who is not a cannibal-dancer. | And you, ghost-dancers, 

 will sit down outside of the || cannibal-dancers, on the board covering 95 

 of the hole: | and some wUl sit on one side of the cannibal-dancers 

 and some on the other side; | and the Sparrow Society, and the 

 Sparrow Society women, | will sit on each side of the house." Thus 

 said Head-Princess; and as she said so, she took the | rope out of the 

 basket, coiled it up in her left hand, || and then she spoke again, and 400 

 said, "Let me | ask you, chiefs, to do the same as we | l !aL lasiqwala 

 do when you catch the ghost-dancer; for when the | l !aL !asiqwala 



Iexs laa^las Lax^ulile K- !edelEma^ye. Wa, laEm^lae dalaxes Llabate. 82 

 Wa, la^lae yaq!Ega^la. Wa, la^ae ^nek^a: "Gelaskas^la wTwomp- 

 qExs alElelaex. QixLaxgin nagadek' tslEdaqa lag'ilasEn ompa aEm 

 ^nex- qEn nogwa^me S,Em aaxsIlaxEus g'axex gwaelasa. Wa, yuEm 85 

 ts!ats!exsilax"LEns g"axex k!walaena^ya. Wa, g'a^mes g-axele 

 wlwomp, qa^s doqwalaosaxg'a x'imayolg'iusag'ada lElolalaleg'a 

 Q!ex'sesElasEk-,yixg-ada ximayok" dEUEmsEu qwesbalise laxes lelE- 

 lolElale. Wii, helmets g'axelos. Wa, he^maa, qEnsQ lal kimyalExga 

 Qlex'sesElasEk'; wa, laEms g"ax^mawesLal Le^lanEmltsox YaqEya- 90 

 lisEmax. Wa, laEm gwalElaEml q!ap!eg'alllElaLa haamatsia kliis^a- 

 lilEhil laxa nEqewalilaxsa gokwex, qago lal paxstalllx^LEg^ada 

 ^labEgwelkQk", qa k' leases nExwabalasa k'lese hamatsia laqEk". 

 Wa, he^misds, qosaqlos lelElolElala, ylxs he^mae LlasExdzamweltsa 

 haftmatsla. Wa, laEm k!wadzEwelxox paxsta^yasa ^labEgwelkwex. 95 

 Wa, laLeda eolala k!wak!wan6LEmalllLE lax wax'sbalilasa haama- 

 tsia. Wa, he^mis lal k !udzelasltsa gwegudza LE^wa gwegutsIaxsEma 

 ^waxsanegwllasag'okwex," ^nex'^laeK" !edelEma^yaxs laa^l dalts!6dxa 

 dEUEme laxa Llabate, qa^s q lElx^waLElodes laxes gEmxolts lana^ye. 

 Wa, la^laxae edzaqwa yaqlEg'a^a. Wa, la^lae ^neka: "Wag'a^mas- 400 

 LEn wiiLiiL g-Ig-Egame. He^mas gweg'ilanu^x" gwegilasag"auu^x" 

 LlalLasiqwalek', yixs lElolalalaes k'lmyasoLos, yixs g iPmae kimyaLa 



