Once there was a doctor’s dance, and the boy remained at home till one night when the yapaitu came to him and he began to hlaha. His father and mother did not know what the trouble was.
“Bring him here,” said the oldest doctor.
“He is a Hlahi,” said the doctors, when they saw him. “Sak hikai [the rainbow] is his yapaitu. You must give him to us till the yapaitu leaves him. While the yapaitu is with him, let him stay inside.”
They were five or six days making Hlahis (doctors). The boy stayed in the sweat-house six days, never eating, never drinking; some others ate and drank, but Kol Tibichi neither ate nor drank.
“Something must be done to make that yapaitu leave him. You must put a band around Kol Tibichi’s head,” said the chief, “and the yapaitu will leave him.”
They got a white wolf-tail headband. The yapaitu did not go. “This is not the right kind of a headband,” said the doctor, after a while. They tried fox, wildcat, coyote, a white-deer band, without effect.
“We don’t know what he wants,” said some Hlahis.
Next they tried otter, fisher, coon, badger, black bear, grizzly bear, silver-gray fox, mink, beaver, rabbit, red-headed woodpecker.
“What does he want?” asked some.
“Now,” said the old doctor, “you ought to know that this boy should have food and drink, and he cannot have them till the yapaitu goes. You should know that the headband that his yapaitu wants is a tsahai loiyas” (woman’s front apron made of maple bark, painted red).