I04 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. IX. 



The Arrow and the Earth-Peg. 



The assistant Chief Priest took up the side of jerked beef and 

 cut from the center a circular-shaped flap about three inches in diam- 

 eter. Lone-Wolf touched the ground with his finger, spat in his 

 hands five times, and said: "Whenever you perform this ceremony 

 for your 'father' you will do this, and when you do this, do it in 

 this way." The assistant Chief Priest took up the single painted 

 arrow from the bundle of four and ran it through the opening to 

 about one-third of its length, and then he took the earth-peg and 

 ran it through, repeating what Lone- Wolf had told him.* Then 

 he made four motions and laid the objects down south of the pipe, 

 the point of the earth-peg pointing east and projecting out on the 

 bare cleared ground. The side of beef and the three unused arrows 

 were carried out of the tipi. 



Painting the Lodge-Maker and his Wife. 



With the above performance the last of the Lone-tipi rites was 

 at an end; it only remained to paint and dress the Lodge-maker 

 and his wife and abandon the tipi. As the priests, according to 

 custom, were to receive the garments which the couple wore at the 

 time of the beginning of the painting, they both had left the tipi 

 shortly before this time and had returned, each completely clad in a 

 fine buckskin suit. Both took a sip of water, which was to be the 

 last until the end of the ceremony. f The Lodge-maker sat down 

 in front of Big-Baby and his wife sat down in front of Black-Man, 

 both priests having had their hands prepared by the Chief Priest. 

 The Lodge-maker and his wife removed their outer garments. Big- 

 Baby made four passes toward the Lodge-maker's hair and handed 

 him a comb with which he combed his hair back of his ears. Black- 

 Man at the same time made four passes and combed the Lodge- 

 maker's wife's hair. Big-Baby dipped the tips of his fingers in the 

 white paint, rubbed his hands together, and with the fingers of each 

 hand made in the palm of the other hand a figure like the one here 



given > < This was to draw presents to the Lodge-maker and 



his wife. He then passed his hands down over her breast, up her 



*Thus the desire was expressed that their arrows while on the hunt should be as effective as 

 this arrow. 



fFrom that time they were to imitate the g^eat medicine-spirit who long ago fasted forty 

 days and then took pity on the world and made it. He sent a messenger to the Cheyenne and 

 told the messenger how long he was to fast, and he told him to fast four days each time, each 

 period to represent ten of the forty which the great medicine-spirit fasted. Thus they were to 

 imitate him and fast forty days, in order to learn how to make the earth. 



