15 March 1834
Péhriska-Rúhpa came late today; he was drawn with the large feather bonnet. Mató-Tópe came and told us there were many buffalo near the Hidatsa villages [1, 2]*. He suggested to Péhriska-Rúhpa [that] they should go there to hunt. We gave him buckshot to shoot other game that is expected to be there, too.
When his sitting was completed, [Péhriska-Rúhpa] took off the huge feather bonnet and the colored strips of cloth on his back to put them away. But before he did this, he rubbed them several times upward on each side of his head—a precautionary measure, or medicine. [The two men] then both sat down at the fire and smoked. However, Mató-Tópe first looked around to see if everyone was seated; if [even] one person is not sitting, he does not smoke. . . . The evening was calm, [with a] nice, bright sky. Mató-Tópe took leave of us.
* Reference numerals inserted by project author.
