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enumerated for the first paint of the fifth day. At daybreak there 

 was a sunrise dance, the day proper being occupied by the third, 

 fourth, and fifth paints. At sundown occurred the dance and the 

 rites to the medicine-spirits of the four directions; this marked the 

 conclusion of the dance proper. The dancers removed their paint, 

 went to their respective homes, and broke the fast; the Lodge-maker 

 and his wife and certain priests smoked the sacred pipe, broke the 

 fast; and the Lodge-maker and his wife, in company with the Chief 

 Priest and his wife, took a sweat bath, all the other dancers and 

 priests indulging in the same rite of purification. 



PART II.— THE CEREMONY. 



PRELIMINARY DAYS. 



Formerly a considerable amount of leeway was given the mem- 

 bers of the tribe in assembling at the site of the ceremony, and it 

 was not until all the members of the tribe were present, either of 

 their own free will or through force, and it was not until after a certain 

 tipi, designated as the Warrior-tipi, had been entered by the Sun 

 Dance priests and Lodge-maker, that the ceremony could be said 

 to have begun. 



JULY EIGHTH. 



As a matter of record it may be noted that in 1903 the first bands, 

 the majority being members of the Dog-men organization, made 

 their appearance at the camp site on July 8th. 



JULY NINTH. 



On July 9th bands from Darlington and Kingfisher arrived. 

 As they arrived in their wagons, carrying their cooking utensils, 

 tipi and tipi furniture, they drove around the camp-circle sunwise 

 fashion, singing as they went, and being cheered in turn by those 

 already on the site. (See PI. XXL) 



JULY TENTH. 



On July loth the large band from Washita appeared, and, like 

 the others, made the circuit of the circle, cheering and shouting. 



On the evening of this day the Dew-claw Rattle society, that is, 

 the warrior society of the Lodge-maker, informally asked Three- 

 Fingers, one of their number, to be on the lookout for a cottonwood- 

 tree which would be suitable for the center-pole of the Sun Dance 



