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the tipi, where two or three men of the Star society were gathered. 

 Holding it out in front and at one side of him, he swung it gently 

 backward and forward three times, and on the fourth time, threw it 

 in front of the seated men, who beat upon it with sticks and shouted. 

 This act marks the termination of the fourth of the sacred songs, which 

 are only sung in the Rabbit-tipi. 



They now began the rehearsal of Sun Dance songs to be sung 

 during the following days of the ceremony. The songs during the 

 rehearsal were accompanied by the beating of sticks on the rawhide 

 by the singers and by the motion of a rattle held in the hands of 

 Hawkan. After singing for some time nearly all left the tipi except 

 the Lodge-Maker and his wife, who from this time forth partook of 

 no food until the night of the erection of the Offerings-lodge. It was 

 now about two hours after midnight. 



SECOND DAY, 1901; SECOND AND THIRD DAYS, 1902. 



For reasons, already given, which hastened the performance, many 

 events were crowded into this day, which, in the 1902 ceremony were 

 properly extended over two days. This second day, then, may be said 

 to correspond to the second and third days of the 1902 celebration. 



THE SWEAT-LODGE. 



It is to be expected that, in a ceremony so important as the Sun 

 Dance, the sudatory, as a means of bodily purification, would play a 

 prominent part, for rarely is any serious affair undertaken by the 

 Arapaho without this bath, accompanied by its attendant rites. 



OMITTED IN 190L 



According to the ordinary method of procedure in the~ Sun Dance 

 ceremony, a large Sweat-lodge should have been erected on this morn- 

 ing to the north and near the Rabbit-tipi. On account of the fact, 

 however, that they were pressed for time, it was decided by the lead- 

 ing men to dispense with this part of the ceremony. Certain of the 

 more active participants, however, had already gone through this 

 purification ceremony, while others were to perform it in the Sweat- 

 lodges, near their tipis, on this or the following day. 



THE SWEAT-LODGE, 1902. 



With the increased amount of time at the disposition of the priests 

 during the 1902 ceremony, opportunity was offered for the erection of 

 the Sweat-lodge. This, however, was not done on the morning of the 



