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When the bundle was to be transferred to one standing in the 

 relationship of "daughter," the bundle owner's children and the 

 younger people of the clan and household cooperated to acquire the 

 necessary goods for the transfer feast. The transfer was a direct 

 one to the children, one of whom held prior interest.*^ Sons were 

 assisted by theu- wives, but the daughters' husbands took no part in 

 the transfer except when a new and permanent relationship had been 

 established with the mother-in-law by prior removal of the mother- 

 in-law taboo. The sale was du-ect from mother to daughter. If the 

 mother was dead at the time the transfer was to be made, an older 

 woman of the mother's clan was selected to prepare the bundle and 

 to receive instructions for the purchaser. Those owning rights in 

 the Wolf, Holy Woman, and Old-Woman-Above bundles were ex- 

 pected to attend and to pray for the success of the buyers. There 

 was a payment in robes and other goods to the legitimate participants 

 who, in return, publicly sanctioned the bundle transfer. 



The Wolf Woman being conceptually one of the Holy Women, 

 any man with singer rights in a Woman Above or Holy Woman 

 bundle could lead the singing. The articles for the bundle were 

 received, in part, from Sunset Wolf and Old- Woman-Above bundles. 

 The former supplied the wolf hide, wolf-hide cap decorated with 

 12 eagle tails, and the wolf claws and mane for the wTists and ankles. 

 The Old-Woman-Above owner supplied the buffalo hide with hair 

 removed, braided sweetgrass, and an enemy's scalp. Either bundle 

 owner could supply the buffalo skuU. 



The husband, when he had not removed the mother-in-law taboo, 

 took no active part in the amassing of the goods other than his tradi- 

 tional role as hunter for his wife's people and did not attend the 

 transfer rites or claim any rights in the bundle. Neither is there 

 e\'idence that the husbands of Wolf Woman bundle owners were 

 necessarily owners of other Wolf bundles. Should a situation have 

 arisen in which the husband and wife were Wolf bundle owners, by 

 the customary inheritance rules, separation would have occurred in 

 the next generation. The husband's rights would go to his son, who 

 would be li\4ng in a different lodge by the rules of matrilocal residence, 

 and the wife's bundle would be retained in the lodge by her daughter. 



Articles in the bundle included a woLf hide, a buffalo hide from 

 which the hair had been removed, a wolf -hide cap with 12 eagle tails 

 attached by means of a porcupine quill decorated band, woLf claws 

 and mane to be worn on the wrists and ankles, a braid of sweetgrass 

 in the form of the sun, an enemy's scalp, a buffalo skull, and white clay. 



*' See the Creek ceremony given above for another case of transfer of a bundle through the female line. 



