300 THE, MYTHOLOGY ROM) THEWWLOH IDA, 
58. THE MAN WHO WENT TO SPIRIT-LAND.* 
The real time of this story is after horses were known in this 
country, many hundred years ago, while the people were living down 
hete, 
Once upon a time there were two young men who had grown up 
together and were of the same age. In their early days they were play- 
mates, and the older they grew the better they liked each other. When 
they became grown, they went with war-parties like other men. They 
then became real friends, for they had made an agreement that each 
should share the home of the other. They offered their homes to each 
other’s people and they lived as one family, simply because they were 
fast friends. By their agreement they were both to die at the same time. 
If one of them was killed in battle, the other was to die, so that both 
should die at the same time, instead of one having to mourn for the 
other. They were always together, and whenever there was a war- 
party sent out they would go to war. According to Indian custom, 
any persons making this kind of an agreement were called brothers, 
and this is the way people regarded them. One of these brothers got 
married, but that did not have anything to do with their friendship; 
the other one always remained single. 
In those times there were a good many men who would get up a 
war-party and stay out on the war-path, one party after another. The 
two brothers would always ‘be in the same party and would never part 
from one another, on account of the agreement they had made between 
them. While out on an expedition, whatever they did in time of battle 
they would be together, and would not leave one another, and if they 
killed any enemy, the one who did the killing would present the scalp 
to the other. In these times a scalp was a fine gift, and many men 
made friends by presenting scalps to one another. On their return 
from the war-path, the one who had scalps would present them to his 
people. If aman was married he would present the scalp to his wife. 
When the brothers were out on the war-path together their people at 
home would keep the wife of the married brother and help her in the 
lodge at all times. A woman had to wear moccasins at all times during 
the absence of her man. She would have to go to the creek for an 
early morning bath. She was not to look around, but to look straight 
ahead. While going to or coming from the creek she was never to 
speak to any one, especially to the men folks, until her man came back 

*Told by Towakoni Jim (Towakoni). 
