THE STONE-MAN MEDICINE-LODGE. 293 
where the Buffalo stood, grunting. The Buffalo ran and the man shot at 
it. Instead of the arrow going through, the point became entangled in 
the hair. Stone-Man shot at it many times, but did not kill it. He shot 
all of the arrows from the first quiver and then he told his daughter to 
bring the next quiver. He continued to shoot at the Buffalo, but could 
not kill it. He used all of the arrows from the second quiver; then he 
called for his daughter to bring him another quiver. This quiver did not 
have many arrows in it and they soon gave out. He called for the fourth 
quiver. This quiver contained the four arrows that were colored. 
They were not real arrows, for they were made of rushes. The Buffalo 
knew this, so it sat down with its tongue out. Stone-Man grunted and 
ran up to the Buffalo, but the Buffalo took no notice of him. He shot it; 
but the arrows had noeffect. Stone-Man shot the last arrow; then he ran 
and passed the Buffalo. The Buffalo jumped up and hooked the Stone- 
_Man, and a piece of stone fell from the man and went through the air 
whistling. The man kept grunting, and the Buffalo kept hooking him 
and knocking pieces off until it had Stone-Man down. The errand men 
of the young man came and threw rocks at the man until they shattered 
him in pieces. The girl came and picked up the pieces and threw them 
into the boiling lake. As soon as the pieces fell into the lake, the steam 
came out and filled the lodge and went out from the top of the lodge. 
These people ran to the camp. 
They stayed there until the next morning; then they went back to 
the lodge and they found that it had turned into solid stone, but still 
retained the shape of an earth-lodge. This is why we have geysers in the 
west, hot boiling water coming out from the ground. 
The young man took his wife home, and the people went back to the 
east and made a village somewhere upon the Republican River. The 
young man started the animals’ lodge among the Kitkehahki, and 
performed many miracles. Even the woman, the Stone-Man’s daughter, 
_ took part. She had men shoot her with spiked arrows, but they dropped 
from her body. In the ceremony of the medicine-men, the Animal-Boy 
would place at the foot of the altar a stone that was supposed to have 
dropped from the Stone-Man while the Buffalo was throwing him around. 
The daughter picked it up and kept it. This is the reason why the 
animals’ lodge among the Kitkehahki was known as the Medicine-Stone- 
Man-Lodge, although the young man was the one who gave the animal 
ceremony to the Kitkehahki. This stone was kept by the descendants 
of these two people, Animal-Boy and Stone-Man’s daughter. 
One time the Sioux attacked the Kitkehahki while they were on a 
buffalo hunt. The Sioux ran these people into a ravine, and here the 
