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A stick for stoking pipes is shown in Fig. 2. Its end is flat, 

 and is said to represent a duck's bill. 



The following is told about the origin of tobacco. Before 

 the fifth (or present) life (generation, or period of the world), 

 cottonwood-bark, bufifalo-dung, and dried meat were used as 

 tobacco. Then an old man obtained tobacco supernaturally. 

 He cut it up fine, put it into a pouch, and threw it behind 

 him. Thus he gave it to others. 



Fans made of an eagle-wing are used by old men very fre- 

 quently. Younger men sometimes have fans made of the 

 tail-feathers of hawks or eagles. Such fans are also used in the 

 peyote worship. 



Old men use their eagle-wing fans for the good of all (the 

 tribe). They use them as shades for the eyes when they can- 

 not see very well. With them they also drive away flies, 

 brush off dust, fan themselves when sweating, and pat them- 

 selves when they have had enough to eat. They have been 

 used since Clotted-Blood (a mythical character) gave one to 

 his father. 



Eagles were caught, as among the Blackfoot and other 

 tribes, by a man concealed in a pit covered with brush, on 

 which meat was placed. Only certain men could hunt the 

 eagle. For four days they abstained from food and water. 

 They put medicine on their hands. In four days they might 

 get fifty or a hundred eagles. A stuffed coyote-skin was 

 sometimes set near the bait. 



In hunting deer, calls are used. These are made either of 

 wood or of a bone whistle like those used in ceremonials. 



The following account of buffalo-hunting was given by an 

 old man. 



Bows and arrows were made by the man who was the father 

 of the mythical twins (boyish monster- destroyers, who are the 

 heroes of a myth called " Tangled- Hair "). This was the first 

 bow and arrow. Ha°xabi'naa (one of the twins), when blown 

 away by the whirlwind, was found in the rushes and called 

 Biaxuya'n ("found in the grass"). He caused the buffalo to 

 come out of a hole in the ground. When he was about to do 

 this, the people made a strong corral of timber; into this he 



