40 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
have the same powers as he himself had, and should become the head 
man of the village. ‘To this the Coyote would not consent; for he 
knew how cruelly the man had treated the people who visited the chief. 
The Coyote took a rest for a while, and the other man spoke to the 
people, saying that the Coyote should not be in a hurry to kill him. 
The man was not going to offer his life to anyone, and so he went into 
the air. This man was Shadow-of-the-Sun (Ihakaatskada). The chief 
spoke to the Coyote and asked him why he had not killed the man 
before he got away. The Coyote asked to have his large bow and arrow 
brought to him. They brought his bow and arrow. He then went 
to the place where the man was sitting, and looking up, he shot his 
large arrow. He then told the people to look up once in a while in 
the direction in which the other man had disappeared. All at once 
the people got to stirring around and saying that something was com- 
ing down. They could just barely see it coming, but finally it came 
closer and closer, until it hit the ground. The Coyote then ordered 
the people to bring wood to that place. The people went for the wood 
and each one brought an armful and placed it on top of this man’s 
body. The Coyote cut a stick with the sharp stone that he had for his 
knife, and set fire all around the body and burned it. When the body 
was burning he would poke the fire with the stick that he had cut, and 
to those that this man thad before killed as he had tried to kill the 
Coyote, he said, “Your house (body) is burning.” So one after another 
of the men jumped out, and there were a great many men saved. 
After the fire went out, the chief who owned this village took the 
Coyote back home and made him one of the head men and gave his 
sister to him for a wife, because he had destroyed the cruel man. Of 
course, the Coyote was fine-looking, and so he was glad to marry the 
chief’s sister. He lived here for a while. The people noticed that every er 
morning the Coyote went out to take the Buffalo by the horns and 
jerked it, and then this shield would appear; and that he would re- 
main outside and command his arrows to go out hunting, by shooting 
them in each of the four directions, until they had brought the buffalo 
to where he was, when he would call his wife to butcher them. On 
this account everybody liked the Coyote. One night some one carried 
off one of the Coyote’s arrows. The arrow, having life in it, spoke out 
to the rest of the arrows, saying that he was being carried off to an- 
other place. Tihe Coyote said to his brother-in-law that some one had 
stolen one of his arrows. This arrow was brought back to him, and 
he said that no one of his arrows could be stolen without his knowledge 
of it. Every morning the people gathered around this man’s tipi, look- 
