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drink on the warpath, and gave him a song which he must always sing before drinking while on such an expedition:
We ma no ya ni na
(Now I will drink) (repeat four times)
Ne pi ni na (Water, me)
We ma no ya ni na
(Now I will drink) (repeat four times)
Then he told Pi toe ka h' how to make the war whistle (PI. XXIX, E, F, G) and how to blow it with medicine in it to weaken the power of the enemy. He also explained the bluish soft stone or dirt that had been given to the young man in his fast, saying, "This will be your medicine when somebody is wounded in the hollow part of his body. Fill a mussel shell with water, and scrape a little of the medicine into it, and let the wounded man drink it. It will make him throw out the blood, and will cure him.” Then he instructed him as to what to do when he returned to his village after a war expedition. “If your father and mother have anything good to eat, let them ask the young men who help at such times to fix the meat and cook for a feast.” This was done, and when they had put the meat in the pots, the young man, following the instructions of the Manito, took down the bundle and laid it upon the black wolf hide, and untied it, putting some Indian tobacco in it, which the Great Manito had given him for the purpose, with seed to plant to raise more. Then he sang:
Hi na hi ni na (Now, myself)
Wi pa ka ni no (Open me)
? (repeat couplet four times) ni na !
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Wl pa ka nl
Ma ni to wa nl wa pa me kwa ni na (Spirit will look at me)
Hi na hi ni na (Now, myself)
Wi pa ka ni no ni na (Open me)
(repeat couplet three times)
As he continued untying the bundle he suddenly saw beside him, a pile of sweet cedar (pa pa ka ta kwa) and the Great Manito told him to bum it and smoke the bundle, and to do this four times a year. So he smoked the bundle, dipping it through the smoke four times to the eastward, and was then told that no one could destroy the power of a bundle thus smoked, and that even a woman in menstruation might approach it without injury (to the bundle) as it hangs to the rafters. As a rule women are not allowed near when a bundle is open, especially when in their periodic condition.
Seeing what the young man had done, the other people took up the style and began to make and use these bundles, and to sacrifice to the Great Manito through them. This was the beginning of fasting, and of Mi' cam an, 1 or Sacred Bundles. From this first bundle all others are branches.
After I left the field, Mr. William Skye (PI. XX, B), a mem- ber • >1 the Peoria tribe, who had been my assistant during most i >1 the Oklahoma work, tried to get further information about the bundles. He met with considerable difficulty and opposition, as most of the Indians who knew these things thought it wrong to impart their knowledge to anyone who might write it down.
But he finally secured the following myth, another ver-
1 Singular = ml'cam' or ml' ca m*.
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