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last one being in front of and beyond the altar. The drummers occu- 

 pied their accustomed position. 



Watdngaa now left the line and went over to the altar, where he 

 took up the ceremonial pipe, the Badger-pack, and the goose-quill. 

 Debithe also left the line and got the Wheel. The Lodge-Maker now 

 placed around him the buffalo robe, with the hair side outward. 

 Hocheni took up the rawhide, while Waakatdni followed Debithe and 

 returned with the many wrappings of the Wheel. The dancers now 

 continued to stand in this same line, while the priests from the east 

 end of the line passed in a single file in front of them, and on around 

 to the north, east, and back in front of the dancers, where they sat 

 down. The Lodge-Maker and his wife, Biba, now left the line and 

 sat down in front of the remaining dancers, and in front of the ditch, 

 the Lodge-Maker being on the south side and Biba on the left. The 

 rattle, which had been forgotten, was now obtained by Hawkan, who 

 gave it to Chanitoe. Watangaa lighted a pipe and passed it along 

 the line, each priest as he received it, taking a few whiffs. As the 

 pipe was returned to Watdngaa, he placed it, together with the feather, 

 on the Badger-pack. 



The relative positions of the two lines again changed, the Lodge- 

 Maker and his wife moving forward and joining the line of priests. 

 Two of the dancers also now assumed a position in the forward line. 

 With these changes, the line of the dancers was semicircular in shape, 

 the center of the line being just in front of the altar. The second 

 line, which was five feet in front of the first line, extended from a 

 point between the altar and the center-pole, on around toward the 

 west and north. The position of those in the second line, beginning 

 with the southern end, was as follows: Biba, Chanitoe, Hitantuh, 

 Wdtanah, and H6cheni. 



Biba now arose, and Debithe handed her the Wheel and the 

 straight-pipe, which he took up from the badger-skin. Both of these 

 objects Biba held in her right hand, the bowl of the pipe pointing for- 

 ward. While the entire line of priests now moved a little toward the 

 north, the line of the dancers passed also toward the north until they 

 were immediately behind the former. The two lines now split into 

 two divisions, there being thus formed four short, concentric, curved 

 lines northwest of the center-pole. 



THE SUNRISE DANCE. 



The crowd around the lodge and within it was now as great as at 

 any time during the ceremony, although care was taken that the move- 

 ment of the dancers and the priests should not be interfered with, nor 



