386 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
at the sun, gave a howl, and as the sound died away the Wolf died. 
The man went up to where the Wolf lay and spoke to him, with deep 
feeling, and wept. He remained upon the hill several days, and one night 
the Wolf came to him in a dream and said: ‘‘ My son, take the nose off 
from my body and keep it, as I told you. Do not stay upon the hill any 
more, for the Sun, my father, who gives me my power, has given me 
permission to follow you all the time. When I last cried, it was a cry 
to the Sun, for now the Sun has helped me to pass out of this world to our 
home, to a place unknown by man.’’ When the man awoke, he looked 
about him and saw the Wolf lying there. He took his knife out and laid 
it on the ground. He took some sumach leaves and tobacco and placed 
them inside the nostrils of the Wolf. After this, he took his knife and 
cut the nose with a piece of the scalp on. He left the Wolf on the hill; 
for the Wolf in the dream had told him that he should leave his body on 
the hill. The man took the things that he was to take with him, the root 
and the nose of the Wolf. The man did not go to join the war party, but 
went on home. 
When he reached home, people asked about the others who were with 
him. He told them that he was lost from the others and had not seen 
them any more, and so he had come back home. The people called him 
a coward and said, ‘‘You should have remained with them.’’ The man 
did not say anything. Days went by. The man was always absent 
from the village. While he was gone one day, the war party came over 
the hills as if to attack the village. They were on fine ponies that they 
had captured from the enemy, and each was singing his victory song. 
As they approached the village men went out to meet the victorious 
party, while the women and children climbed the mud-lodges to see the 
victorious war party come in. Some of them had white clay all over 
their bodies, and others were painted black with prairie grass that they 
had burned, to let the people know by the smoke that a victorious war 
party was coming. When the men came home the people told them that 
they did not go out to meet the man who had come home alone. The 
warriors then told the people that they thought the man had strayed off 
and perhaps been killed by the enemy, for he had never been seen by 
them again. Wolf-Man returned to the village when he saw the war 
party approaching, and listened to all they said, but remained silent. 
The summer passed. In the fall when the people were gathering 
their corn, another warrior of distinction sat in his lodge and invited a 
few of his friends to join him, telling that he intended to go out among 
the Comanche. Wolf-Man heard about the war party, and he stole away 
from home and joined the party. There were good warriors in this 
