WOLF DANCE. 229 
genitor came into the world by the agency of a wolf, and 
commemorate the event by the wolf dance. 
This dance is conducted with the greatest secrecy, and 
it is only by the most urgent solicitation that spectators are 
admitted to this curious scene. 
Upon entering the dance lodge—a long, low building made 
‘of poles and thatched with grass—about fifty performers 
were observed, all dressed in wolf skins, so as perfectly to 
represent the animal. They went around on all fours, howled 
and made other demonstrations peculiar to the wolf. After 
going around awhile they all stopped, and one smelled the 
earth at a particular spot, howled and began to scratch. A 
general scratching then took place, and pretty soon they 
unearthed a genuine live Tonkaway, who had been interred 
for the purpose. As soon as he was dragged out a general 
council was held, when the Tonkaway addressed them thus, 
“You have brought me into the world and I know not what 
to do for a subsistence ; it would have been better to let me 
remain as I was. I shall starve in this world.” After 
mature deliberation they put a bow and arrows into his 
hands and told him he must do as the wolves do, rob, kill 
and wander from place to place, and never cultivate the soil, 
and this {hey have done ever since. 
The Apaches and Lipans are very numerous, fierce and 
warlike. They are more generally supplied with fire-arms 
than other tribes, and are in a sate of constant hostility to 
the whites. 
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