nd in a few minutes fires
are built and the meal is in preparation."

FOOTNOTE:

[K] James Mooney.

[Notes: SIOUAN TENTS

_B. Tent of Little Cedar, belonging to the order of Sun and Moon
shamans. The circle represents the sun in which stands a man holding
deer rattles._

_C. Those persons who belong to the Inke-sabe sub-gens known as
Keepers of the Pipes, paint their tents with the pipe decorations._

_D. Used by a member of the order of Grizzly Bear shamans. "When they
have had visions of grizzly bears, they decorate their tents
accordingly." (George Miller.) The bear is represented as emerging
from his den. The dark band represents the ground._

_E. Sketch furnished by Chief Dried Buffalo. The circle at the top
represents a bear's cave. Below there are lightnings, then prints of
bears' paws. E also represents the grizzly bear vision._]

[Illustration: _Enlarged from plate in report of the Bureau of
Ethnology_]

[Illustration: AN ARAPAHOE BED

_Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution_]

SONG OF THE PRAIRIE BREEZE[L]

_Kiowa_

That wind, that wind
Shakes my tipi, shakes my tipi,
And sings a song for me,
And sings a song for me.

"To the familiar, this little song brings up pleasant
memories of the prairie camp when the wind is
whistling through the tipi poles and blowing the flaps
about, while inside the fire burns bright and the song
and the game go round."

FOOTNOTE:

[L] James Mooney.

OLD-WOMAN-WHO-NEVER-DIES

_Mandan_

In the sun lives the Lord of Life. In the moon lives
Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies. She has six children, three sons and three
daughters. These live in the sky. The eldest son is the Day; another
is the Sun; another is Night. The eldest daughter is the Morning Star,
called "The Woman who Wears a Plume"; another is a star which circles
around the polar star, and she is called "The Striped Gourd"; the
third is Evening Star.

Every spring Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies sends the wild geese, the swans,
and the ducks. When she sends the wild geese, the Indians plant their
corn and Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies makes it grow. When eleven wild
geese are found together, the Indians know the corn crop will be very
large. The swans mean that the Indians must plant gourds; the ducks,
that they must plant beans.

Indians always save dried meat for these wild birds, so when they come
in the spring they may have a corn fe