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ently was that by bands, the name of each one being usually an issue 

 station or sub-agency, or some other similar term ; but that there was 

 any connection between these bands from the different localities of 

 the reservation and a genetic system, could not be learned. 



On the night of the completion of this circle, Watangaa placed at 

 the disposition of the Star society his tipi, one of the largest of the 

 camp-circle, and invited the Dog-soldiers to meet there at a feast (see 

 Plate IV.). The reason for this invitation of the Dog-soldiers, as will 

 be seen later on, was largely due to the fact that to this society falls 

 much of the detailed work in the erection of the lodge. The approach- 

 ing performance was discussed that evening, and the head men of the 

 Star society, after considering the matter themselves, finally decided 

 to ask Hocheni and the other head men to begin the actual ceremony. 

 The evening was made a time of good fellowship and rejoicing and the 

 utmost good feeling prevailed between the members of the two societies. 



VII.— Participants in the Ceremony. 



Before beginning the discussion of the erection of the lodge and 

 of the attendant rites, it is necessary to consider in some detail the 

 more prominent characters who are to play such an important part on 

 the following days. At the first it may be stated, as has already been 

 intimated, that the ceremony, although it is the direct outgrowth of 

 the vow of a single individual, is an affair which concerns the entire 

 tribe; consequently we may say that participating in the ceremony 

 was the Arapaho nation. It falls to the lot, however, of certain indi- 

 viduals to conduct the actual performance itself. These active partici- 

 pants were as follows: 



Group i. 



H6cheni (Old-Crow); chief priest; personates Sun. 

 Cheathea (Broken-Down- Woman) ; Peace-Keeper; personates 

 Moon. 



Bech^aye (Hairy-Face, wife of Old-Sun); formerly Peace-Keeper. 

 Hisethe (Good-Woman, wife of Hohdkaki). 



Group 2. 



Hdwkan (Crazy); director; personates Arapaho tribe. 

 Waakat'ani (Spotted-Bear) ; assistant director. 

 Chaiii (Lump-Forehead) ; woman director. 

 Watdngaa (Black-Coyote) ; pupil. 



