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the part of all, which formed the final performance in the ceremony, 

 was to the effect that all might follow a straight road, that all 

 might be protected, and that the families of those who had fasted and 

 taken part in the ceremony might be protected, inasmuch as they had 

 performed the ceremony according to the orders of Man-Above. 



THE MORNING RITES, 1902. 



This performance on this year was practically the same as has 

 already been described. As the dancers moved out toward the sun, 

 the wife of Nishnat^yana held the Wheel, while the wife of Watdngaa 

 carried the sacred pipe, holding it in her right hand, with the bowl 

 pointing upward. After the purification ceremony, and after the 

 priests had sat down upon the ground, Hdwkan and Chanitoe removed 

 the rabbit fur from the Lodge-Maker's robe, which Hawkan tied up in 

 a bundle and placed with it five sprigs of fresh sage. The sacred 

 straight-pipe was given to Hdcheni, who pointed with the bowl south- 

 east, southwest, northwest, northeast, and then with the stem toward 

 the sun and ground. 



The Badger-pack, after being carried out, was placed in its usual 

 position south of the Wheel. It was unwrapped by Watangaa, who car- 

 ried away with him the badger-skin, while H6cheni, as on the preceding 

 year, retained the black and red covering. It was noticed when the 

 Wheel was finally wrapped, that it had been lying on a thick bed of 

 sage. 



THE SACRIFICE OF CHILDREN'S CLOTHING. 



It was now about ten o'clock, and many of the lodges about the 

 great camping-circle had already been taken down, preparatory to 

 the return of the families to their homes in the different parts of their 

 reservation. As soon as the priests had finished their smoking and 

 had left, men and women, singly or in pairs, and generally accompanied 

 by children, began making their way toward the Offerings- Lodge from 

 all points of the circle. Having entered the lodge, the majority of them 

 lifted their right hands toward the sun and offered a prayer, whereupon 

 they proceeded to the cedar tree, or to one of the other trees forming 

 the altar (see Fig. i, Plate CIV. and Plate CV.), or to the center-pole 

 itself (see Fig. 2, Plate CIV. and Plate CVL), where they fastened 

 bundles of clothes discarded by their children during the year, the 

 idea thus expressed being that they desired that the. children should 

 grow up to be men and women, and should be accompanied by good 

 luck throughout life. One of the prayers uttered just before the 

 offering of the old clothes on this morning is here given:. 



