ORIGIN OF THE BUFFALO BUNDLE. 125 
a certain number of buffalo to the people to kill. The people killed the 
buffalo and made many buffaloholy. They also captured the sacred bundle 
that the girl carried. When the bundle was captured by the people the 
buffalo were satisfied and agreed to go back to their country in the west. 
During this time a young buffalo bull had taken away the white buf- 
falo calf and had lain with it. When the Buffalo were about to return to 
their country the white Buffalo girl was missing. The Buffalo waited 
for the girl to come and decide how far they should go the first day. 
They called for her and she came up from a ravine where she had left her 
calf. She took her place and gave a command that the people should 
journey a certain distance. The Buffalo began to march and they jour- 
neyed for several days as the girl directed. Early one morning, just as 
the girl was about to tell the Buffalo how far they were to journey, there 
was a great noise from behind. The Buffalo turned and saw three buffalo 
bulls. In their midst was a poor little calf singing: 
“I am hunting my mother. 
My mother’s name is White-Frost.”’ 
Then it sang again: 
“T am hunting for my father. 
My father is White-Bull.”’ 
The three bulls made fun of the calf and said: ‘‘You think White- 
Frost is your mother, and that White-Bull is your father!’’ but the calf 
went on through the herd singing until it reached its mother. The 
mother would not claim the calf, and would not let it suck, although it was 
apparent that she had a calf. The calf cried and said: “If you will not 
let me suck, I will turn your milk black and from this time on there shall 
be no more white Buffalo.” 
The calf returned to the village and turned into a boy. The little 
boy was given a home and lived with the people. He grew up to bea 
wonderful man. He then took charge of the bundle that was captured 
from the Buffalo. He told the people that when they killed Buffalo they 
must put fat upon the bundle, for the bundle belonged to Tirawa and the 
fat also belonged to him. The pipe and the raccoon penis went together 
in the bundle, for the pipe was used to give smoke to the gods, while 
the raccoon penis was used in offering the fat to the gods. He also told 
the people that when they should capture arrows from the enemy they 
should put these arrows upon the bundles, and when they made sacred 
pipe offerings they should use the enemy’s arrows to tamp the pipe with, 
so that the smoke going to Tirawa would be offerings of the enemy; 
that they must never press the tobacco with their fingers, for if they did 
they would be offering themselves to the gods and would soon die. 
