350 ABSTRACTS. 
Married friend mourns brother and goes on war-path to die. Mother of child 
dies and he goes to wife’s grave to mourn. While there he goes to sleep and has 
dream, in which his friend appears. Friend asks if he throught a great deal of 
his wife while she was living, and says he can live with her again if he wishes. 
Dead man tells him what he will have to go through to bring this about. He 
wakes up and friend is standing there. Friend touches his eyes and he finds 
himself in other world. They see lodges and come to place where dance is. 
Friend leaves live man, who sees ‘his wife dancing. As she comes around he 
throws mud balls at her and fourth time she leaves dance and goes home. 
He follows her and enters home. Father-in-law asks if: he has come to see 
his wife, and then tells him that next morning he must go buffalo hunting, kill 
buffalo and cut fat from shoulder, then he must kick buffalo and it will come to 
life again. Next morning he obeys his father-in-law’s instructions and brings 
fat to wife’s home. He is told to take bath and rub fat all over his body. He 
goes on buffalo hunt four mornings and then is told he can live with his wife 
same as on earth. Getting back home he is to send out war-party four times 
and bring scalp every time. During dances after return from war-path he is 
not to associate with other women. Ifthe does he can not keep wife, but afterward 
he can do as he pleases. He finds himself on ,earth with his wife. She tells 
him to have lodge cleaned and smoked with sage, and that his folks are not 
to weep when she enters. When place is ready, young man and wife go to home. 
Soon afterward young man goes with war-party, which returns with scalps. 
During dancing he remembers what he was told. He goes out with another 
war-party, which is victorious. He places scalp where wife's dead people can 
get it and goes with wife to dance. Long after, young man sends out another 
war-party. They return home victorious and young man offers scalp to wife’s 
dead parents. He goes to dance and wife is not there. He meets woman who 
has courted him and stays nearly all night with her. His wife knows what he 
has done and leaves him permanently while he is asleep and returns to her 
dead people. He goes to her grave, but no one appears to him. He tells people 
that he has been in another world and that those who die in battle are happier 
than those who die of sickness. Man lives long afterward, but never finds out 
about his wife again. 
59. THE MAN WHO RESCUED HIS WIFE FROM SPIRIT-LAND. 
Two boys become friends and go to battle together. In their homes they 
are considered brothers. One gets married. Other boy goes on war-path by him- 
self and dies in battle, that he may cease to think of friend. Married man’s 
wife dies, leaving him child. He mourns continually for loss of wife and friend. 
While at wife’s grave he falls asleep and dreams of friend. He wakes and sees 
friend. They go together to large village and enter dance place. Friend instructs 
him what to do, and he throws four mud balls at wife while dancing and follows 
her to her father’s lodge, as in No. 58. Father asks him many questions and 
then tells him he must go on horse and kill buffalo, take fat from hump and kick 
buffalo on back and tell it to go. He does so and delivers fat to father-in-law. 
Man is to take sweat bath, bathe his body in incense, and rub fat over him every 
day. At end of four days man is told to take wife. He is instructed to go on 
war-path and secure four scalps. On return home wife directs him to have 
