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Shifunin said his dance was pinitu dance, in summer; he could not 

 give it, because it was winter. So he went to the shure' and he told 

 him he had to go to the mountain [Wliite Eagle Mountain], where 

 there was a lot of snow and ask in all directions for the winter pinitu 

 dance. With Wfeide's power the man woidd come out and show him 

 how it was to be. So he told his people. . . . They had to divide 

 their people up before the dance was to be decided. For all these 

 different directions they put leaders, three men to each, to part the 

 people. After they appointed these men, they divided their people. 

 They told them they would be governed by t'aikabede first, then by 

 pf^ide, and then to give thought about their dance. Then to go to the 

 east with kaade and pqiwilawe to see if they could find the man 

 Wff'ide told them to look for. WMle there they heard a song and they 

 followed the voice. WTien they came there they found a man all 

 dressed up, just as the dance was to be. So kaade and pqiwilawe 

 asked the man if he could come wdth them and show the people how 

 to dress and dance. They brought him home with their power. They 

 gave him to All the directions people.*^ So everybody had received 

 him. From that man from WsEide they learned the winter dance." 

 It kept on, and summer came. As before, they made their thought 

 and went to kaade and pQiwilawe and asked how they could get their 

 summer dance. Kaade told them to go back and wait four days 

 while he was doing his work. Then he went to sliifunin kabede and 

 asked if he coidd send a man dressed and with songs. So he went to 

 the people and told him to go again to Shyupatoa [White Eagle Moun- 

 tain]. They went and heard a song. They followed it and found 

 a man dancing. He was dressed entirely different. Clowns (both 

 lands) were with him, with watermelons. They brought them home 

 and had their meeting and gave them to the people and from them they 

 learned their summer pinitu dance (for crops). ^' And from that we 

 learned how to dance until to-day. 



6. The War Captain Who Was Incontinent 



Before an antelope hunt the war captains (wilawe) had to remain 

 continent for four days. Once, on the last night of this period, one 

 of the war captains '^ had a woman who was not his wife. This war 

 captain owned a white horse. Riding it, he gave chase to an antelope 

 that started to run to the east, then ran to the north, the west, the 

 south. The hunt chief was telling the people it would be a fortunate 

 thing for the war captain if he could return to the east, whence the 



•« Presumably a reference to the shicbu people. (See p. 273.) 

 " See pp. 317-318. 

 M See pp. 321-324. 



w This man was referred to as known to the informant's father, as an actual, living person: but the story 

 belies this. The witch stories of the Siimu informant WL-re told similarly, as of recent occurrence. 



