392 THE MOUNTAIN CHANT. 
They sewed up the mouth, left the eyeholes open, stuffed the skin with 
hay,and hungit ina tree to dry, where it would not get smoky or dusty. 
They eut places in the neck through which the hunter might see. The 
skin of the doe which the younger brother had killed some time before, 
and which had been tanned in the mean time, they painted red and gray, 
to make it look like the skin of an antelope. They prepared two short 
sticks, about the length of the forearm; these were to enable the hunter 
to move with ease and hold his head at the proper height when he crept 
in disguise on the deer. During the next four days no work was done, 
except that the elder brother practiced in imitating the walk of the 
deer. 
19. From the camp where these things happened they moved to a 
place called Tse“lakai-ia‘ (White Standing Rock). Before they went to 
hunt or gather seeds, the old man desired that they should all help to 
build the hogan (hut); so all went to work together, men and women, 
and the hogan was completed, inside and outside, in four days. 
20. The morning following the completion of the hogan, the father 
sent the young men out again, directing them, as before, not to go to 
the south. They went off together, and soon espied a herd of deer. 
The elder brother put on the deer mask and began to imitate the mo- 
tions of the animal, asking his younger brother what he thought of the 
mimicry. When the latter gave his approval, the elder brother said, 
“Steal round to the other side of the herd and when they see you they 
will come in my direction.” He waited, and when he saw that his 
brother had got to the other side of the herd, he selected a big fat buck 
as his special object, and began to move towards him, walking and 
pawing the ground like a deer, and rubbing his antlers against the 
trees. Soon the buck began to approach the hunter, but the latter kept 
his head constantly turned toward the deer the better to maintain his 
disguise. Presently the buck came quite close to the Indian, when the 
latter sped his arrow and brought the quarry down. They carried the 
meat home and the old man demanded that the meat and skin should 
all be his in payment for his advice. This was the third time he had 
advised them and the third time he had received a gift for his service. 
He directed that the meat should be cut into pieces and hung in the 
trees to dry, and that the skin should bestretched and dried for his bed. 
21. Next day the elder brother desired the younger to stay at home, 
saying that he would like to huntalone. As usual, the old man warned 
him against the south and directed him to hunt in the country north of 
the hogan. He set out, accordingly, to the north; but he returned at 
night without any game. Again on the following morning he set out 
alone, and this time went to the west, as his father had directed. He 
hunted all day without success, until near sunset, when it was time for 
him to return. Then he remembered what his father had told him of 
the shrubs that would always have deer for his arrow. Looking around 
he saw a cliff rose, into which he shot his dart, and at the same instant 

