24 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



THE DEAD MAN REVIVES 



Now Taa'wonyas is spea 1 ' "Are you well? What think 



you? (Isege 11 ' onent'gayei' i .nesni'goe') ? " 



Now the people notice that the man is moving his lips as if speak- 

 ing but no words come. Now this is near the noon hour. Now 1 11 

 are silent while Taa'wonyas asks again, " My uncle, are you feeling 

 well? (onigent/gaiye')." 



Then comes the answer, " Yes I believe myself well." So these 

 are the first words Ganio'dai'io' spoke (" Iwf nai' o'ne't'gai'ye 

 he v nekni^oe")." 



Now then he speaks again saying, " Never have I seen such 

 wondrous visions ! Now at first I heard some one speaking. Some 

 one spoke and said, ' Come out awhile ' and said this three times. 

 Now since I saw no one speaking I thought that in my sickness I 

 myself was speaking but I thought again and found that it was 

 not my voice. So I called out boldly, ' Niio' ! ' and arose and went 

 out and there standing in the clear swept space I saw three men 

 clothed in fine clean raiment. Their cheeks were painted red and 

 it seemed that they had been painted the day before. Only a few 

 feathers were in their bonnets. All three were alike and all seemed 

 middle aged. Never before have I seen such handsome command- 

 ing men and they had in one hand bows and arrows as canes. Now 

 in their other hands were huckleberry bushes and the berries were 

 of every color. 



" Then said the beings, addressing me, ' He who created the 

 world at the beginning employed us to come to earth. Our visit 

 now is not the only one we have made. He commanded us saying 

 " Go once more down upon the earth and [this time] visit him who 

 thinks of me. He is grateful for my creations, moreover he wishes 

 to rise from sickness and walk [in health] upon the earth. Go you 

 and help him to recover." Then said the messengers, ' Take these 

 berries and eat of every color. They will give you strength and 

 your people with us will help you rise.' So I took and ate the 

 berries. Then said the beings, ' On the morrow we will have it that 

 a fire will be in the bushes and a medicine steeped to give you 

 strength. We will appoint Odjis'kwathe 111 and Gayant'gogwus, 2 a 

 nan and his wife, to make the medicine. Now they are the best of 

 all the medicine people. Early in the morning we will see them 

 and at that time you will have the medicine for your use, and be- 

 fore noon the unused medicine will be cast away because you will 



1 Dry Pudding. 2 Dipped Tobacco. 



