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the wife of Pappai (see Fig. i), 

 who, during a thunderstorm, 

 saw a bolt of lightning coming 

 directly toward her. 



It appears that vows for 

 the preservation of the life of 

 a member of the pledger's 

 family is now the chief reason 

 for the pledge, and this prob- 

 ably has been the most fre- 

 quent occasion of the vow in 

 the past. Other reasons, how- 

 ever, are assigned as causes for 

 making the vow. Thus it is 

 said, for example, that when 

 men have been hard pressed 

 while on the war-path, and it seemed not possible for them to 

 escape the enemy, they have vowed to give the ceremony should 

 they be permitted to escape. Again, it is said that on certain 

 occasions men have been out in a stcrm and it seemed as if the light- 

 ning were about to strike them, and in fact, so it is believed, the 

 lightning would have struck them had they not instantly pledged 

 the ceremony. 



A man may pledge the ceremony more than cnce. It is said of 

 one individual that he made the lodge four times. Tall-Man, the 

 Chief Priest in 1901, made the ceremony three times. 



The name given to the pledger is "reproducer," or "multiplier"; 

 for through him the tribe is supposed to be reborn and to increase, 

 and, as the name of the ceremony itself applies, through his act all 

 nature is supposed to reproduce her kind. 



Fig. I. The Lodge-maker, igoi. 



INTERVAL BETWEEN THE VOW AND THE CEREMONY. 



Shortly after making the vow, Little-Hawk asked the members 

 of the warrior society to which he belonged, the Dew-clan Rattle, to 

 assemble at his lodge, for they were to prepare the feast. On this 

 occasion he appeared before them with his face and hands painted 

 red, the painting having been done by a medicine-man. Thereafter he 

 would continue to wear red paint until the last day of the ceremony, 

 although the time might be ten or twelve months or even longer. 



After the warriors were gathered in the lodge he presented to the 

 head man of the society a pipe which was passed about the circle 



