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15. THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A STAR. 
Girl taken up to heavens by star digs turnip and sees people on earth. Old 
woman makes sinew rope and lets her and child down through hole, but rope 
too short. Husband kills her with stone, but boy safe. He goes to cornfield 
and is caught by old woman, who takes him home. He shoots huge serpent be- 
hind curtain, who was woman’s husband. She plans for bear to kill him, but 
he captures bear. Boy finds tipi with four strong men playing dice game. He 
shoots through hole and cleans man’s nose with arrow. He goes with them to 
hunt and they annoy him with elk’s foetus. He climbs tree and men remove 
foetus from tree only on his promising them his grandmother. She goes with 
him to men’s tipi and they teach boy ceremony of catching eagles and of hunt- 
ing. Boy meets camp of Snakes, all of whom but one he kills, as in No. 14. 
Surviving Snake enters anus while he sleeps and gets into head, from which it 
is driven by water boiling. Boy seizes it and knocks its head on flat rock. Boy 
afraid of foetus because cluster of stars to which boy’s father belonged did not 
come up at that time with rest; so father not present to help him. 
16. NO-TONGUE AND THE SUN AND THE MOON. 
Young man goes upon high hill to mourn. Little bird takes him to another 
place. Man, painted red, comes and says he is going to be his son and asks for 
his tongue. Young man cuts off his tongue and gives it to man and then falls 
dead. Moon sees him and goes and touches his feet. Young man sits up and 
Moon tells him man to whom he had given tongue is Sun. Moon makes him his 
own son and warns him that when Sun offers him choice of weapons he is to 
take old ones. Sun takes him to sky in morning and cries because No-Tongue 
takes best things, as these give boy life. Sun asks No-Tongue to send him white 
buffalo robe. Moon tells him to get dark brown robe for Sun and powder it 
with white clay. Sun hangs up robe and wind shakes all white clay out of it. 
Sun tells Moon his Little-Sun is going to kill No-Tongue. Moon warns No- 
Tongue and advises him what to do. No-Tongue goes with party on war-path 
and Sun plans for Little-Sun to kill him. Little-Sun with enemy and in morn- 
ing asks No-Tongue to shake hands with him. No-Tongue goes and kills Little- 
Sun and his people defeat enemy. Sun sends son Big-Sun to kill No-Tongue, 
but is killed himself. Sun becomes Buffalo to kill No-Tongue, but falls into 
mud hole. No-Tongue makes fire on his back and Buffalo burns up. Sun tells 
Moon he will scalp No-Tongue. Moon tells No-Tongue to put false scalp over 
head with dog’s blood inside. Sun comes and takes scalp. Seeing that No- 
Tongue is not really scalped, Sun-leaves him alone. When old and blind No- 
Tongue goes to top of hill and makes circle of red sticks for Sun and circle of 
white sticks for Moon. Sun and Moon come and Sun takes old man to his home. 
17, HOW BURNT-HANDS BECAME A CHIEF. 
Poor boy, Burnt-Hands, lives with grandmother outside of village. Last- 
Child, daughter of chief, brings them food. Burnt-Hands follows trail of 
wounded elk and finds it dead. Chiefs Red-Bear and Black-Bear come. Red- 
Bear shoots boy and drops him into air-hole in ice. White-Bear’s cub takes 
