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THE SKULL REPAINTED. 



Chanitoe began retouching the paint on the skull. First he 

 painted the tip of the left horn black and over the left half of the skull 

 he made a number of black dots, drawing a crescent-shaped symbol 

 on the lower edge of the maxillary. The same treatment was applied 

 to the right half of the skull by Watangaa, who used red paint. The 

 skull was then placed in position just behind the excavation, which 

 it faced, as well as the center-pole, and the east. 



THE SODS PAINTED. 



Chanitoe and Watdngaa lifted one of the sods and placed it on the 

 south side of the excavation, and then placed the other on the north. 

 Hawkan took some dry black paint and drew a straight line which equally 

 divided the floor of the excavation. The black paint was then passed 

 to Watangaa, who filled in the left half in fine, close, black lines. 

 The bag of black paint which had been used for this purpose was then 

 tied up and placed on the south side of the south sod. Hawkan then 

 took red, dry paint and poured a stream just to the right of the black 

 line across the excavation. He handed the paint to VVadnibe, who 

 filled in the right half with red. 



Hdwkan took a bunch of the rabbit bushes, handed them to 

 Watdngaa, who knelt before the sod on the south side, spat upon the 

 sod five times, and then in the southeast corner of the sod, planted 

 one of the bushes, a second in the southwest, third in the northwest, 

 the fourth in the northeast corner, and the fifth in the center, Hocheni 

 first touching the sods with the pipe-stem. (See Plate LIL) Chanitoe 

 placed in the north sod a similar number of bushes, going through the 

 same performance. Both men, assisted by two or three of the women, 

 now thickly planted the bushes over the top of the sod, until the sur- 

 face was almost covered. (See Plate LIIL) 



THE SEVEN TREES. 

 Watdngaa and Chanitoe now took up the cedar tree and carried it 

 to the south of the south sod, Watdngaa making first a hole with the 

 digging-stick, into which the cedar was firmly implanted. Next, 

 Watdngaa dug a hole about a foot to the south of the cedar tree, into 

 which he and Chanitoe inserted the willow. Then the two black 

 painted cottonwoods were placed about a foot apart, and still to the 

 south of the willow, the four being in line. These two men then 

 inserted in similar spaces on the north side of the north sod, and in 

 line with the others, the three red painted cottonwoods. Then 



