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.
“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.
Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of Ethnology