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and see how they are." So next day she started. She went there 

 and when she got there everyone was dancing. She went in. She 

 was white all over and when she came in she brought a draught of 

 cold au'. Then Pautiwa said, "Now who is coming?" They did 

 not know who it was. It was the fiist time she had gone there, and 

 they had never seen anyone lilve that before. So he called liis people, 

 "My children, stop dancing for a little while. Someone else has come 

 here." Then everyone stopped dancing. There she was. She was 

 white all over. Then Pautiwa and Sayataca asked her, "Where is 

 your home that you have thought of us and come here? We thought 

 all our people were together here, but now you have come." She 

 said, "I am not really your people. I am the salt. I make people 

 well. I am Salt woman. I have been hving in the east by my people 

 at Itiwana. I stayed a Uttle to the east of their village, but they 

 treated me badly and so I have gone away to the south. I used to 

 hear you people coming to dance at Itiwana so I have come to visit 

 you here to find out whether I can go to Itiwana with you so that my 

 children there may give me feathers hke they give you. I need 

 feathers Uke yours, and I thought that if I should go to Itiwana with 

 you my people would give me feathers. That is why I have come. 

 I want to go with you so that my people will always remember me 

 and when they are out of salt they wiH make me a new dress and 

 take it to my lake." 



So Pautiwa and Sayataca said, "It is weU. We are very glad to 

 have you. We always want people to join us in our village here. 

 We shall get you ready to go with us. My people will be ready to 

 go when the fourth day comes," Pautiwa said. So she said, "I shall 

 come again in the morning and we shall go. Now, I am going. I 

 have come here gladly," she said, and she went back home. So she 

 went back home, and at Katcina Village they were practicing for the 

 mixed dance. 



Now at Itiwana the people went again for salt, and when they got 

 to the lake there was nothing there at all. There was just a salty place. 

 Then the priests and the headmen all went there to see where she 

 had gone. They saw her trail going to the south. They thought 

 they would never have any salt again, for they thought that she had 

 gone all the way to the south ocean. Then they went back and picked 

 up all the little scraps of salt that the girls had thrown away on the 

 road and brought it back, because they were afraid they would never 

 have any salt again. 



When the fourth day came she went to Katcina Village and when she 

 got there they dressed her. They laid out a white embroidered 

 blanket for her and a white kilt. Hemokatsik dressed her. They 

 gave her a dress and a blanket and they dressed her. They gave her 

 beads and tied the parrot feathers to her head. Then they said, 



