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Bears Arm remembered the following major bmidle owners as 

 representing the warriors when Appearing Coyote bought his Wolf 

 bundle: Weasel-Blackens-Himself, Thunder and Big Bird bundles; 

 No Milk, NaxpikE bundle; His-Horse-Smells-Him, Thunder and 

 Big Bird bundles; Porcupine Pemmican, NaxpikE bundle; Bears 

 Heart, Grizzly Bear bundle ; Black Horn, Wolf bundle ; Crows Breast, 

 Woman Above bundle; Lying Chicken, Imitating Buffalo bundle; 

 Hits-on-Back, Eagle Trapping bundle; Hairy Coat, Woman Above 

 bundle; Dog Bear, Imitating Buffalo bundle; Plain Tail, Big Bird 

 bundle; Marries-by-Carrying-Water, Grizzly Bear bundle; Holding 

 Eagle, Eagle Trapping bundle; Iron Eyes, Wolf bundle; Bobtail 

 Bull, Earthnaming bundle. 



After the fasters had danced at the edge of the village, the warriors 

 proceeded toward the lodge, again stopping four times to receive 

 arrows and to dance and sing. The same four men related additional 

 war records, after which all went into the lodge. The fasters were 

 brought out four times each day. Each faster carried an eagle 

 wingbone whistle supplied by his father and, while dancing, was 

 expected to look toward the sky and whistle. 



When all were in their places in the lodge, the "fasters song" was 

 sung 100 times to represent the 100 Cheyenne Indians the Wolves 

 gave to Hungry Wolf. The major bundle owners took turns singing, 

 using the buffalo hide drum which Wolf Woman provided when the 

 ceremony began. All fasters were expected to dance through the 

 entire singing. A bullboat was kept over the fire so that exhausted 

 fasters would not fall into the fire. The director of the ceremony 

 kept track of the singing by means of 100 sticks. After each song 

 he removed a stick from the pile until all were taken; then he would 

 shout, "Stop." Then the singing and dancing stopped. The 

 bundle buyer and his clan brother were required to wear the wolf 

 hides during the dancing, so the young men could "look at the wolf 

 as they danced and cried." 



Other fasters would select clan fathers to pierce them for drawing 

 buffalo heads while dancing went on outside at the edge of the village. 

 Occasionally one chose to be lowered through the smoke hole by means 

 of rawhide ropes fastened to the thongs. This was the exceptional 

 case and seems never to have been universally practiced as it was 

 among the Mandan in their Okipa ceremony. The fasters went 

 out to the edge of the village in the early forenoon, just before noon, 

 during the middle of the afternoon, and early in the evening. Between 

 times, the major bundle owners sang and one of their number danced. 

 The dancer would call for a specified number of arrows and the 

 bundle buyer would carry them to him. The director of the ceremony 

 would stop the singing the instant the arrows were delivered. 



