_Kansa_
When there is a blizzard, the other Kansa beg the members of the
Tcihaci gens to interpose, as they are the Wind People.
They say, "Oh, grandfather, I wish good weather. Please have one of
your children decorated."
Then the youngest son of one of the Wind People, but one half grown,
is selected. He is painted all over with red paint. Then he goes out
into the storm and rolls over and over the snow, reddening it for some
distance. This stops the storm.
[Notes: "KILLED TWO ARIKARA CHIEFS"
(Indian drawing)
_The rank of the chiefs is shown by the white weasel skins attacked to
their costumes. The arrow in the thigh of the horseman indicates that
he was wounded._]
[Illustration: _Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology_]
[Notes: MANY TONGUES, OR LOUD TALKER
_Oddly enough, the name is given as that of the vanquished, not of the
victor, although the balloon of sound would seemingly indicate
otherwise. The pipe between the two indicates that the victor is
entitled to celebrate his victory._]
[Illustration: _Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology_]