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Show MOONKY] ARAPAHO BEDS 963 happens in this fevered mental condition, and instead of his father he found a moose standing by his side. Such transformations are frequently noted in the Ghost- dance songs. 6. E'YEHE'! WC'NAYU'UHU' E'yehe' ! Wft'nayu'nhn'- E'yehe'! Wn'nayn'uhu' - A'ga'na', • A'ga'na'. Translation E'yehe'! they are new - E'yehe'! they are new- The bed coverings, The bed coverings. The composer of this song is a woman who, in her trance, was taken to a large camp where all the tipis were of clean new buffalo skins, and the beds and interior furniture were all in the same condition. FIG. 89- Bed of the prairie tribes. The bed of the prairie tribes is composed of slender willow rods, peeled, straightened with the teeth, laid side by side and fastened together into a sort of mat by means of buckskin or rawhide strings passed through holes at the ends of the rods. The bed is stretched upon a platform raised about a foot above the grbund, and one end of the mat is raised up in hammock fashion by means of a tripod and buckskin hanger. The rods laid across the platform, forming the bed proper, are usually about 3£ or 4 feet long ( the width of the bed), while those forming the upright part suspended from the tripod are shorter as they |