422 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
the woman took therefrom several old scalps. She gave these scalps to the 
women, together with the fresh ones. The women then went to one of 
the lodges and there they started a dance known as the women’s Scalp 
dance. The women started out from their lodge and went straight to 
the young man’s lodge, and there they danced and shouted, saying: 
‘‘The young man killed the enemy, took scalps, and counted coup.’’ The 
shouting was the same as he had heard when he was out upon the plains 
near the Prairie Dog town. The young man gave most of his presents 
away to the women who were dancing. The women danced nearly all 
night, going from one place to another. 
The next morning when the sun was high the two men from the 
Crazy-Dog ceremony came again and invited the young men of the lodge 
to go to the ceremony. The two young men went, and when they were 
seated Handsome-Boy was again selected on the south side, to act as a 
brave and to ride his pony around the dancers. He arose and left the 
tipi of the dancers and went to his lodge. He caught his pony and painted 
it with red paint and then he painted himself. He put the string of 
scalps about his neck and put the war bonnet that he had taken from the 
enemy on the prairie upon his head. Then he went to where the people 
‘were having the dance. When he arrived he noticeda gray pony tied in 
front of the tipi where they were to have the dance. The horse was tied 
to a spear stuck in the ground. This was to show to the people that the 
person who stuck the spear into the ground would give the pony to any 
warrior who would kill with the spear several enemies in the next battle. 
If a man among the dancers was willing to undertake to kill the enemies 
and thus avenge those who had been killed in battle, he was to dance up to 
the spear and take it up fromthe ground. The dancers came out into the 
open air and went through the village dancing from one tipi to another. 
While they were dancing, the other brave who was selected with 
Handsome-Boy to be a leader rode among the dancers and told all of his 
deeds. He told of his killing one of two enemies and scalping him. 
When the young brave told his story there was great shouting. Hand- 
some-Boy rode among the dancers and began to tell his story. He told 
that when the young warriors went over the prairie upon the war-path 
he was left lying upon his bed, and in the middle of the night a woman 
had come to his bedside; that he had driven the woman away and then 
she had called him names and made fun of him because he was not a 
brave warrior, and so he decided at once to start upon the war-path. 
He said: ‘‘I arose from my bed and made up my mind that I would go 
upon the war-path, and I went at once. I was upon the prairie for many 
years,and one dayI met anenemy. I fought the enemy, killed him, and 
