Good Furred Robe is the culture hero of the Mandan corn tradition. In the origin account recorded by Alfred Bowers, the Corn People came up from their home beneath the earth led by their chief Good Furred Robe, who was Corn Medicine and alone held the right to teach the people how to raise corn; he guided them northward along the Missouri to the Heart River, where they joined the Buffalo People and the country became the meeting place of all the Mandan. He instituted the corn ceremonies, among the most valued of early Mandan rites, and organized the Goose Women's Society, whose dances at the coming and going of the waterfowl served the corn goddess Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies. He owned a robe which, sprinkled with water, would cause rain to come, and the office of corn priest descended from him into the twentieth century — Scattered Corn, who assisted the ethnographers of Mandan agriculture, was the daughter of the last Mandan corn priest. As late as 1948 the Mandan corn bundle was said to contain the skulls of Good Furred Robe and his brothers.