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passed another piece under my dress in the opposite direction. 

 She repeated this three times more, so that at the end there 

 were four pieces of goods lying on each side of me (those on 

 one side having been interchanged with those on the other by 

 passing them under the dress). Then she pushed two pieces 

 under my dress on my stomach, and successively placed them 

 below my shoulder, over the heart, and on my stomach again. 

 There she left them. The other goods were given away. 

 Backward told me to leave the pieces of cloth on my stomach 

 for four days, while I fasted ; then to prepare food and invite 

 all the old women in again. I fasted and cried for four days ; 

 on the fourth, food was prepared, and the old women came 

 again. After they had eaten, I received the bag, with in- 

 structions how to use it. Backward made a motion four 

 times to give it to me; then, at a fifth motion with it from 

 her heart, she gave it to me. 



"A few days later, Yellow-Woman called me to make a 

 bufEalo-robe. The hide was already dressed and prepared. 

 I entered the tent. At the back of the tent lay the buffalo- 

 skin, folded and laid like a buffalo. Its head was toward the 

 door. By it lay five pieces of goods as payment. I sat down 

 at the iniddle of the back of the tent,' behind the buffalo-skin. 

 I told Yellow-Woman to call the other women. After they 

 came, food was taken around (and sacrificed), as at the time 

 when I received my bag. Then we ate, and the remainder 

 was taken out for friends and the children. Then I burned 

 incense. Then two of the women motioned toward the buf- 

 falo-skin with sticks, whipping it as if, to make a buffalo rise. 

 Then I spread the robe (the hair-side to the ground). I put 

 a burning coal on the ground and placed incense upon it. I 

 spit medicine on one of the marking-bones five times. I held 

 the bone successively on four sides of the coal, near the 

 ground; the fifth time I drew the bone across above the coal, 

 to signify the marking (which is done by drawing the edge of 

 the bone along the hide). Then all came close around the 

 buffalo-robe and held it. Yellow- Woman with the marking- 

 bone drew lines across it, which were to be embroidered with 

 porcupine-quills. In her mouth she had hagawaanaxu, and 



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