280 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
bundles. They understood the powers of the stones. They knew where 
there was a stone god, and this stone god used to talk with the people and 
made them famous among all other people. Among the Chaui there 
grew up a young man who disappeared, and when he came back he was a 
wonderful young man. Among the Pitahauirat was a man who acted 
curiously and had many names. They called him the Cheat-Coyote, or 
Crow-Feathers. He stole things from many people. | 
One time, when the three bands came together to make an offering of 
buffalo to the gods, Crow-Feathers saw Animal-Boy from the Chaui band. 
This young man was dressed in fine buckskin leggings and moccasins. 
Crow-Feathers wanted these clothes and determined to have them. One 
time Animal-Boy went out in the timber. He met Crow-Feathers, who 
dared him to turn into some kind of animal. The boy at first would not do 
anything, but finally consented. He took off his leggings and moccasins 
and arose and flew like an eagle. As he flew over Crow-Feathers’ head, 
Crow-Feathers said: ‘‘Be an eagle always. Do not come down any 
more.’’ The boy then flew around and around, but could not turn into 
human form again. Crow-Feathers took the leggings and moccasins and 
went home. The boy was missed, and after a long search he was given 
up for dead. 
_ There was a poor man and woman who lived east of the village. 
They had no tipi, so they had to make a grass-lodge. As the woman 
gathered some grass, a bird of some kind flew downwards and fell into 
the bunch of grass. The old woman looked into the grass and there lay 
a baby boy. The woman ran and told her husband that she had a baby 
grandchild. The two wrapped the baby in old skins, but they were so 
poor that they had nothing to feed the child. They lay him by the fire. 
The next morning the child was larger. As days went by the child 
grew taller. In a few days he was of considerable size and ran around. 
One day he ran to the man and said: ‘‘Grandfather, make me a bow 
and four arrows, so that I may play with them.”’ The old man made 
the bow and arrows and the boy went out to the timber to try and kill 
game. He could not kill anything with the little bow and arrows, so he 
told the old man to make him a larger bow and larger arrows. The man 
made them and gave them to the boy. Now the boy asked the old 
woman to make him a spider-web ring. The old woman cut up a piece 
of her robe and made the ring. The boy hung the ring outside the grass- 
lodge. The next day he arose early and played around the lodge, call- 
ing for his grandmother to awake and get the ring and roll it for him, so 
that he might shoot at it. ‘‘ Well,’ said the old woman, ‘‘I will roll it.” 
She rolled the ring inside the lodge, and the boy shot at it. The arrow 
