Baws TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
2. THE SPIDERS GIVE BIRTH TO PEOPLE.* 
There was once an old Spider-Man who lived by himself with his 
wife. One day the Wolf and his friend went to visit these old folks. 
The Spider-Man was dirty, his eyes were red, he had no hair on his. 
head, and the was very dirty all over, and he emitted a bad odor. His 
wife also was very dirty; her hair was thin and very coarse. The Wolf 
had never seen people who looked like these people. 
Lupus ab homine quaesivit quem ad modum cum uxore concum- 
beret. Homo respondit: ‘Non dicere sed ostendere volumus.”’ 
“Recte,” dixit Lupus. Cum autem hominem mulieremque conspexisset, 
illum tantum genitalia esse, itemque mulierem repperit ; quocirca fetorem — 
emiserunt. Atque uterque de genere araneo fuit. 
Deinde Lupus: “Efficiemus ut pulchriores videamini, et concum- 
bere aliter ac nunc possitis.” 
The Spider-Man and the woman were both willing. So the Wolf 
and his friend went and got some wild sage and fixed up some medi- 
cine. They dipped the wild sage into the water and rubbed it all over 
the two Spider people. As he rubbed the wild sage over them they 
became very different, they looked better, and they did not smell bad. 
Deinde Lupus virum docebat quem ad modum cum uxore concumbere 
conveniret, quidque facere oporteret ut liberos gignere ‘posset. 
Nisi Lupus hec fecisset, ut aiunt, nulli de genere humano geniti essent. 
Namque ille Araneos docuit quem ad modum concumbere oporteret ut 
liberos gignerent. Qui autem ex eis geniti sunt humani fuerunt, unde 
homines omnes sunt. 
3. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARIKARA.{ 
There were large people living upon the earth long ago, who were 
so strong that they were not afraid of anybody, but they did not have 
good judgment. They made fun of all the gods in the heavens. 
Nesaru looked down upon them, and was angry. Nesaru said: 
“I made them too strong. I will not keep them. They think that they 
are like myself. I shall destroy them, but I shall put away my people 
that I like and that are smaller.” 
So the animals were made to assist some people to turn into corn 
and they were taken under ground into a cave, which was so large that 
animals and people lived down there together. The large people were 

*Told by Two-Hawks. 
{Told by Hand, 
