56 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
the lodge. The sun has covered the lodge.” In the night the man gave 
some night songs. ‘The night dreams have entered the lodge. The 
night dreams are moving about the lodge. The night dreams have 
touched the people. The night dreams have covered the lodge.”’ “Let 
the night dreams be. The night dreams are coming. The night dreams 
have entered the lodge.”” Then there were songs about the mother-corn, 
the brown eagles, the ducks, the owls, and the wild-cats. The man was 
also. taught that on the third night they must take a child and decorate 
it in such a way that it would represent Tirawa. The painting of the 
child with the red paint about his face represented that the sun had 
touched the child. There was to be a mark upon the face of the child which 
was to represent the picture of Tirawa. At last the child was to be 
placed on the nest of an oriole. The two priests were to hold the child 
up while the leader of the pipe-sticks placed the nest under its feet. Then 
the priests stood the child up onthenest. This was to teach that the 
child should grow up to be either a man or woman and that its life’s path- 
way would be hard, but it would grow up, for the powers of Tirawa were 
now uponit. The oriole makes its nest high upinthetrees. The storms 
never blow it away. Snakes can not get to its nest, and its young ones 
are always safe. Then they finally dance, and the paintings and other 
things are taken off from the child, together with the paw of a wild-cat. 
Then the child is permitted to return home and the painting upon its face 
must wear off. The child must not be washed. 
These are the things which were told me by my father. The pipe- 
stick ceremony came from heaven, from the animals, and from the water- 
monster. 
13. THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A STAR.’ 
A long, long time ago during the summer two girls were sleeping 
on the top of an arbor. As they lay there, one of the girls-said ‘“‘O 
how I wish I had that star for my husband; I love that star.’’ That 
night the girl went to sleep. When she awoke she found herself in 
a strange country. She cried and cried to get back to her own country; 
but when she found out that she was living with a man who was really 
the Star that she loved, she was then happy. The woman’s husband 
told her not to go away from home and not to dig in the ground. 
He told her that she might dig wild turnips if she would be careful and 
_  3Told by Curly-Hair, a young Kitkehahki, the nephew of Curly-Chief. This 
iS a poor version of the well-known and widely disseminated tale which the 
Arikara claim astheirown. It seems that the present version is somewhat mixed 
with the story of Long-Tooth-Boy. (Cf. tale No. 41.) 
