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other men and then returned to the lodge. The boy said: ‘‘ White- 
Moccasins, you may kill me now if you can.’’ White-Moccasins tried 
to kill the boy, but could not. Then the boy said: “‘I will show you my 
power.’’ The boy waved his hand at White-Moccasins and White- 
Moccasins began to pound his head upon the trees and everything that 
came in his way. Then the people who were with White-Moccasins 
jumped on the boy and began to strike him with clubs. The boy then 
took his whistle and whistled. As the boy whistled, all of the people 
about him fell dead. After a while he whistled again, and White-Mocca- 
sins fell dead. 
54, SUN-RAY, WHO MISTREATED HIS WIFE.’ 
A man and his wife lived together some distance from the main 
village. The man traveled over the country very swiftly and brought 
home deer, buffalo, and all kinds of game. He would order his wife to 
cook certain parts of the meat for him, then would give her only a small 
piece of meat to eat. He abused her by throwing hot coals at her and 
punching her with the fire sticks. The woman tried to get away from 
him, but every time that she was about to go to her people her husband 
would come, and before she knew it she would be hanging on his belt, 
inside of a round rattle bound with hide and having a handle. 
One time the woman ran to one of the villages, and there she told the 
people that she was starving; that her husband was very cruel, and ate all 
the meat that he brought to their lodge. She thought that she was safe 
in the village, for she kept herself hid all the time. The people gave her 
plenty to eat, and watched to see that her husband did not come. 
Finally her husband returned from the hunt to the lodge, and when he 
found that his wife was gone he traveled from one village to another, and 
when he came to the edge of a village he took his rattle and pointed it 
toward the village, moving around as he did so, and if the woman did not 
appear in his rattle he knew that she was not in the village. Then he 
would go to another village and move the rattle around, and if the woman 
was in the village he would at once see her come out of his rattle; for the 
tattle was made from a magic gourd, and whenever it was pointed towards 
the woman she immediately appeared inside the rattle. Thus he found 
the woman hiding in the village. = When he returned with her to his home 
he treated her very badly. 
1Told by Thief, Kitkehahki. Formerly among the Pawnee there was a certain 
society the members of which carried a peculiar rattle, open in the center, which 
was supposed to have had power similar to the rattle described in the tale. These 
rattles were painted yellow and were supposed to represent a sun ray twisted into 
this shape. This society had its origin in the sun ray described in the tale. 
