352 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
One day the man sat up in his bed and talked to his relatives and 
said: ‘‘My people, this is a wonderful woman; ever since she doctored 
me I have felt good. In my sleep I see her as she is, naked with only a 
covering about her waist, the yellow feather tied to her hair, in her right 
hand a cedar limb, in her left hand the young bear hide; on her left side 
a she cinnamon bear is walking. She and the bears come to my bedside 
and walk around me; then they are gone.’’ The wounded man continued: 
‘‘Now, my friends, I want to know how many ponies and how many 
buffalo robes you are going to send to this wonderful woman, for I now 
feel well. I am a little weak, but I feel that I can walk around and the 
wound will not hurt me.”’ His friends told him that they were to send 
many robes, seven parfleches filled with dried buffalo, and five head of 
ponies. The wounded man was not satisfied, for he had made up his 
mind to make himself poor in heart before her, so that she might take 
pity upon him and give him the spirit of the Bear. 
The woman learned the thoughts of the man in her dream from the 
Bear. One day the woman and her husband went to the lodge of the 
wounded man, and she told the wounded man not to worry about her 
pay; that she was satisfied with the pay, and that from that day the 
wounded man was to become a member of the Bear society. The man 
arose and thanked the woman by passing his hands over her head, then 
down over her arms, saying, ‘““You have taken pity upon me. I was 
wounded very badly; I could not see; it was all dark to me.”’ The 
woman told the man to sit down. Then she went around the lodge and 
stood in the west, facing east. She called the wounded man to her. He 
went to her and she stood him in her place. She then ran around the 
lodge, slapping her side as she went around. Then she staggered and 
caught the wounded man, pulled his head to hers, so that their mouths 
met, and she put some pounded cherries into his mouth and told him to 
eat. He ate. The man became well. His relatives sent robes, and 
parfleches filled with meat, upon ponies to the woman. : 
Another ceremony took place. As the offerings were brought, the 
robes and parfleches were taken into the tipi, and the ponies were tied 
outside. The woman took her medicine bundle, emptied it, and placed 
the young bear hide on the west side of the fireplace and the feathers 
and the paints on each side of the Bear. She next took some native 
tobacco, went out to the horses, put her hand in each horse’s mouth 
and wet her hand with the horse’s saliva. She rubbed the native 
tobacco with this. Then she went into the tipi and stood on the west 
side of the fireplace. She offered a little of the tobacco to the sun, and 
set the tobacco on the edge of the fireplace; then she offered a little more 
