On another day, Ictinike said to his wife, “I am going to see your grandfather, Kingfisher.” When he arrived there, Kingfisher stepped on a bough of a large white willow, bending it down so far that it was horizontal; and he dived from it into the water. He came up with a fish, which he gave to Ictinike to eat. And as Ictinike was starting home, he left one of his gloves, pretending he had forgotten it. So Kingfisher directed one of his boys to take the glove and restore it to the owner. But he charged the boy not to go near him, as Ictinike was very talkative and might detain him too long. Just as the boy was about to throw the glove, Ictinike called, “Come closer! Come closer!” So the boy carried the glove closer. And Ictinike said, “Tell your father that he is to visit me.”
The boy said to his father, when he reached home, “Oh, father, he said you were to visit him.” Kingfisher replied, “As I feared that very thing, I said ‘Throw it to him while you stand at a great distance from him.’”
Then Kingfisher went to see Ictinike. When he arrived there, the host climbed upon a bough of a large white willow, bending it until it was horizontal. Then he leaped from it and plunged into the water. It was with great difficulty that Kingfisher seized him and brought him to land. Ictinike had swallowed more of the water than he liked. Then Kingfisher plunged into the stream, brought up a fish, which he gave to Ictinike. But Kingfisher departed without eating any portion of it.
OMAHA ASSAULT ON A DAKOTA VILLAGE
(Indian drawing)
The single tepee represents the Dakota village; the single horseman, covered by a shield, and hanging behind his horse’s neck in a characteristic way, represents the attacking Omahas. Bullets are flying, the direction indicated by the head.
Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of Ethnology