158 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. IV. 



RITES IN THE DOG-SOLDIERS' LODGE. 



The part which the Dog-soldiers play in the ceremony of the Sun 

 Dance has been frequently noted. Perhaps the most important of 

 these rites are connected with the ceremonial spying-out, capture, and 

 erection of the center-pole. The warrior, who in preceding Sun 

 Dances was privileged to lead in this rite, had recently died, and it 

 became necessary therefore that upon another Dog-soldier be conferred 

 the degree, which should give him the same right or privilege. It has 

 also been pointed out in connection with the ceremony of the center- 

 pole, that HanatchawatanI and his wife, Hiss^hnihani volunteered their 

 services, and it will be remembered that HanatchawdtanI at that time 

 carried a pipe filled with tobacco to Nishchanakati, in order that the 

 latter might present it to the standing fork. 



HanatchawatanI was privileged to capture the tree, but it became 

 necessary that the Dog-soldiers meet and confirm this right. This 

 meeting took place on the night of the seventh day of the 1902 per- 

 formance, in the lodge of Haniit (Long-Hair), where certain prelimi- 

 nary movements were undertaken, after which the Dog-soldiers spent 

 the night in singing sacred songs peculiar to their order. On the 

 following morning, i. e., on the last day of the Sun Dance ceremony, 

 and after the sacrifice of clothing to the altar and center-pole had been 

 made, the Dog-soldiers gathered in the lodge of one of their number 

 on the northeast side of the camp-circle, where they had a feast, and 

 where four of their number were painted, with interesting and instruct- 

 ive rites, (See Plate CIX.) At this time Hanatchawdtanl's right to 

 officiate in the performance attendant on the capture and erection of 

 the center-pole, presumably, was confirmed. The details of this, how- 

 ever, were not learned by the author, owing to lack of time. A 

 description of the rites performed at that meeting, and of the paint of 

 these men, is deferred until another time. 



X.— The Painting of the Dancers. 



For the four days' ceremony, when the dancing occurs, the bodies 

 of the dancers are decorated with certain prescribed designs. While 

 no satisfactory account of the painting of the dancers has yet been 

 obtained, the following brief tale is not without interest in this con- 

 nection: "The paintings which the dancers bear during the Sun Dance 

 ceremony are derived from Young-Bull (Buffalo). This bull was seen 

 on a hill-top during the hot weather fasting for days and nights. One 



