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The Cheyenne — Dorsey. 



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the same movements and placed in the fork, the butts being directed 

 toward the south. (See Fig. 51.) Several additional bundles were 

 taken up and placed in the fork, the butt of the third bundle being 

 directed toward the north, that of the fourth toward the south, and 

 so on, the same movements being performed each time. A larger 

 bundle of cottonwood was taken up in similar manner and placed 

 in the fork on top of the dogwood brush, the base being directed 

 toward the north. A second bundle of cottonwood was taken up in 



Ik;. 51. I'lacin;.; the brush in the fork of the center-pole. 



like manner and placed so that the butts were directed toward the 

 south. Over these were placed other bundles of dogwood. 



The Lodge-maker took up a rope and the rawhide lariat which 

 had been made in the Lone-tipi and tied the bundles firmly into 

 the fork, using first the rope, and covering the wrappings with the 

 rawhide lariat.* This lariat was fastened in a peculiar manner and 

 its various wrappings collectively were said to form the image or 

 symbol of the morning star. Bull-Tongue and the Lodge-maker 

 took up the digging stick, or earth-peg, made four passes with it, 

 and thrust it through the bundle of foHage (see PI. XXXVII.); then 

 one of the priests took the damaged arrow and thrust it into the 

 bundle from the under side, where it remained with the piece of dried 

 meat, which represented a buffalo. To the fork near this point 

 the small rawhide human image was next attached. f Formerly a 

 live captive, it is said, was suspended here as a sacrifice. Many 



♦The whole bundle of vegetation represented the nest of the Thunder-Bird who controls the 

 sun and the rain. Hence clouds and hailstones are painted on the dancer's body later in the cere- 

 mony. The Thunder-Bird is also considered the chief of all birds, and is thought to be the chief 

 medicine spirit of the west. 



t In 1 901 a rawhide image of a hti£Falo was also suspended here 



