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put by the side of the paint bags, which were lying to the south side 

 of the skull, and handed the rawhide strip to Debithe, who doubled it 

 in the middle. 



Debithe took a bag of red paint from the side of the skull, while 

 Chanltoe took a bag of black paint, both of which were opened. 

 Debithe received from Hawkan a bag of spruce-leaves, a pinch of 

 which he placed on a live coal in front of him. Debithe then took a 

 bit of red paint which he softened with tallow and rubbed thoroughly 

 between the palms of his hands, then held the palms of his hands in 

 front of him in a horizontal position over the rising incense. He 

 then, maintaining his hands in the same position, held them over the 

 incense so that the left hand was uppermost. They were again 

 reversed so that the right hand was uppermost, then the left. The 

 hands were thus held in this position four times, and at the fifth time, 

 they were held so that the palms were in a perpendicular position. 

 Chanitoe went through a similar movement with the black paint. 

 They then proceeded to paint the strip of rawhide between them, 

 Debithe painting one half red, while Chanitoe painted the other half 

 black. Having completed painting both sides of the strip, it was 

 placed by Hawkan near the wall of the tipi, at the south and west of 

 the Lodge-Maker. 



FILLING THE STRAIGHT-PIPE. 



The secret of the symbolic manner of filling the sacred pipe was, 

 until this year, known only to Hawkan, and was not witnessed by the 

 author in 1901. Hawkan, however, fearing longer to be the sole 

 owner of this right, the privilege, together with the manner of filling 

 the pipe, were consequently transmitted by him to Watanah. The 

 ceremony was performed in the Rabbit-tipi, of course, at about five 

 o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of the erection of that 

 lodge. In 1901, the pipe was filled earlier in the day, and should have 

 been filled in 1902 just after the preparation and decoration of the 

 rawhide lariat. 



Seating himself just south of the skull, he picked up a small 

 bundle, which, up to this time, had been lying by the side of the paints 

 and other paraphernalia south of the skull, which he unwrapped, dis- 

 closing a black stone pipe enveloped in a very ancient looking oriole's 

 nest, frorn which the pipe was removed and placed upon the nest. 

 Hawkan then spread a piece of cloth in front of the pipe, upon which 

 he deposited five pinches of tobacco, placing the first one in the south- 

 east corner, the second one in the southwest, the third in the north- 

 west, the fourth one in the northeast, and the fifth one in the center. 



