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5. LONG-TONGUE, THE ROLLING HEAD.’ 
Four girls went from a village in the winter time to gather firewood. 
After they had gathered the wood and tied it up with pack strings, they 
cut four long sticks and carried them down tothe ice. They threw the 
sticks upon the ice to see which stick would slide farthest over the 
ice. While they were playing they smelt some root which had a very 
good odor. They kept playing with the sticks and the smell of the root 
seemed to come nearer to them. One of the girls said, ‘“‘Let us go in 
the direction from which this odor comes, and try to find what makes 
it.”” The girls all agreed and they went toward the north, where the odor 
came from. After they had gone a little way one of the girls stopped 
and said, “‘I do not care to go any farther.’’ The remaining three went 
on. After a while one of the girls stopped and said, “‘I am going back, 
I am not going.’”’ She went back, but the other two continued on their 
way. Soon one of the other girls stopped and said: ‘‘What is the use 
of going any farther? The sun is about to go down and we do not know 
where the smell comes from.’”’ The other girl wanted her to go on, but 
she would not, saying, “I am going home.’’ The other girl said, “I am 
going on and find out where this odor comes from.’’ One of the girls went 
home and so only one was left to find out where the smell came from. 
She kept on her way until she saw at a distance a hillside covered with 
cedar trees. She went to the place and there she found a lodge which 
was built of rock. She stood near the rock-lodge and after a while a 
stone moved and a fine-looking young man came out from the lodge. He 
saw the girland said: ‘‘You have been standing here some time. Come 
into my lodge.’’ She said, ‘‘I am following a sweet odor, and if it is in 
your house I will come in.”’ Then the boy said: “It is here that the 
odor comes from. Come right into the lodge.”’ 
The girl went in with the boy, and as soon as she stepped into the 
1Told by Little-Chief, the present chief of the Chaui and great nephew of Pite- 
lesaru, the head chief of the Pawnee. He is the keeper of a sacred bundle and of 
the ‘‘buffalo pipe,’? which when exposed causes windstorms. This interesting 
version of the magic flight accounts for the origin among the Chaui of many objects, 
the possession of which was made possible through the theft from the stone house 
of the Rolling-Head of a sacred bundle, through the raven’s assistance. This 
head was conceived of as an individual, round in shape, capable of traveling great 
distances with great rapidity, and as making while traveling a great noise. This 
being was finally overcome by the hawk, who was conceived of as striking it with 
a club, which is symbolic of the wing of the hawk by which it kills its prey, and 
severing the two parts by means of a flint axe, one part of the head becoming the 
sun and the other the moon. The daughter of the Evening-Star, who is instru- 
mental in the accomplishment of the task just noted, later has connection with the 
red bird, which represents the winter storm, and she and her family become the 
Pleiades, which ultimately is to be increased to ten stars by the addition of herself, 
sister, and brother. 
