Oct. 14, 1911] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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and so he told the people what they must do. 
“In a broad flat they began to build a tight 
brush pen eight or ten feet high. On one side 
it was open, and from this opening lines of brush 
heaps about five steps apart stretched away on 
to the flat for 400 or 500 yards, constantly be¬ 
coming further and further apart. This made 
two wings, thus, <, but each stopped when it 
reached the fence of the pen. On the side of 
this pen opposite the open side from which the 
wing extended, the people dug a big hole in the 
ground, reaching from the end of one fence to 
the end of the other. The side of this hole to- 
each end of the pit close to the ends of the high 
fence. 
“When all this was nearly finished, Red Lodge 
had his lodge prepared and cleaned up. The 
beds were taken out, all the people moved out 
and slept somewhere else. Only Red Lodge re¬ 
mained in his lodge. If the camp was new and 
the ground was not yet worn bare, and there 
were still left some roots of grass and of weeds 
on the floor of the lodge, the women cleaned all 
these away, so as to leave the ground bare. Then 
they gathered white sage and the floor of the 
lodge next to the walls was covered with these 
“After the lodge had been fixed up, he went 
into it alone and made his medicine. No one 
knows what he did while he was there. For one 
day and one night he ate nothing, and all night 
long he sat in the lodge and sang. After he 
had made his medicine and was ready to call 
the antelope, he painted himself like an antelope. 
He painted his mouth black, his back red, his 
belly, legs, rump and face white, and painted red 
streaks across his upper breast. On each temple, 
and running down on his cheeks, he painted an 
antelope horn—black. Then he was ready, and 
he came out of his lodge, naked except for his 
IN THE ANTEI.OPE COUNTRY. 
From one of the old Pacific Railway Reports. 
ward the opening in the pen was straight, stretch¬ 
ing from the end of one fence to the end of the 
other, and the other side was rounding—a part 
of a circle. They dug this hole about five feet 
deep and with sides straight up and down. On 
the rounding side of this hole they drove stakes 
in the ground and tied low bushes to them, but 
on the straight side they stuck bunches of grass 
in the ground, some of it standing up straight 
and some hanging over the edge of the pit so 
as to hide it. Outside of both the straight fences 
of the pen they dug trenches, which were deep 
enough for men and women and children to get 
into and to be hidden when they were lying 
down. After all this had been done, they made 
a good many clubs, and when they had been 
made, these clubs were put on the ground at 
stems, the tops of the stems pointing toward 
the fire. From one of his sacred bundles Red 
Lodge took a good many antelope feet, which 
had been cut off at the pastern joint, and bent 
and dried so that they would stand upright on 
the ground. One of these feet was the right 
forefoot of a buck, the foot with which he 
pawed the ground. This pawing foot Red Lodge 
put down on the floor of the lodge about three 
feet from the wall and to the left of the door 
and so to the right of the lodge man's bed. The 
other feet were placed on the ground, standing 
on their so’es in circles all about the fire, but 
these circles did not meet in front of the door. 
An opening about three feet wide was left oppo¬ 
site the door. There were four circles of these 
feet about the fire, one inside the other. 
breech-clout and moccasins. In his hand he held 
his own medicine pipe, which was painted red 
over bowl and stem. Now he walked to the 
opening in the pen where the wings came to¬ 
gether, and there he stopped and filled his pipe. 
After he had filled his pipe and lighted it, he 
waiked between the wings out on to the prairie, 
and sang his sacred songs and held his pipe up 
to the Great Spirit, and then out toward the 
prairie where the antelope live. Then he walked 
back, still singing, between the wings and 
through the pen until he had reached the edge 
of the pit, and there he rested the bowl of the 
pipe upon the ground. Four times he went back¬ 
ward and forward and sang his antelope songs. 
The fourth time, after he had touched the ground 
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