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85. THE MEDICINE-MAN WHO KILLED HIS SON. 
Boy is told that it is now time that he should join his father’s medicine-lodge. 
He goes to lodge and prays to his father to receive him. Father refuses. Thereupon, 
he takes presents of many kinds, but his father is firm. Then mother takes her bundle 
and arrows, and she and her son, with downy feathers, robe, and some earth, enter 
lodge; but father does not recognize boy. In afternoon they enter lodge, singing 
about diving ducks. That night medicine-men perform sleight-of-hand. In morn- 
ing they are asked to go to creek, where she and her boy are to perform. She jumps 
in with two gourds in her hand, holding them under water. On bringing them up 
gourds are soft down. Releasing them, they float downstream. Waving hands, 
they come upstream to her. Immersing them, they become gourds again. Boy is 
given gourds, jumps into water, releases them, and they come up as ducks and swim 
about in water, and then turn into gourds. Boy’s father has remained in lodge, 
stung with jealousy and envy. All go on buffalo hunt, and medicine-man takes his 
son with him. When two are far from crowd, he accuses his son of attempting to 
outdo him in sleight-of-hand; shoots him in side with arrow, and throws him into 
river. He pretends ignorance, and joins his wife in mourning boy’s death. Boy 
floats downstream to animals’ lodge, where animals carry his body, beaver on one 
side and otter on other and led by mink, to Pahuk. Heistakenin. Arrow is ex- 
tracted and beaver and otter restore him to life. They send him home for tobacco, 
feathers, beads, and sweet grass. These he obtains through his mother, who goes 
through village collecting them from sacred bundles. Boy takes presents to animals’ 
lodge and returns home, but does not associate with his father. Boy one night tells 
his mother what his father has done; among other things, that his father on throwing 
him into creek had told animals he gave them his boy to eat, but that animals had 
taken pityon him. He tells his mother that, if she thinks his father should die, 
she should take little water dog which she had to the creek, dip it into water, and if it 
came up with piece of liver in its mouth, she would know that animals at Pahuk had 
eaten up his father’s intestines. This she does, and boy thereafter becomes leader of 
medicine-lodge. 
86. THE CHIEF’S SON WHO RECEIVED THE ANIMAL POWER. 
Man leads to Pahuk, far away, universally liked son of chief. There they sit 
downon bank. Man ties rope around boy and suspends him over bank, telling him 
to pick up eagle and woodpecker feathers which are scattered about. The boy does 
so and asks man to pull him up, but man has disappeared. He cries for help, and 
realizes that he is pregnant. Animals carry boy into their lodge and decide to help 
him. They act upon him, first Buffalo, then Elk, jumping over him. Then Bear 
cuts boy open, takes out bones of child, throws them away, and healswound. Snake 
gives him bone from sunfish with which to strike his enemies. Buffalo gives him 
whistle upon which to blow when in trouble. Bear gives him dust to be used as 
paint upon sick people. Each of animals teaches him some power. Eagle teaches 
him how to fly and Duck to swim and dive. Boy is hungry, and animals send Crow 
to west, Beaver to north, Otter to east, and Fox to south, for food. After he has 
eaten, Beaver tells him it is time to go home, and Owl, Buffalo, and two Crows accom- 
pany him to his village. They leave boy just outside village. In night boy enters 
