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The two sticks which he had decorticated and fashioned into 

 tampers were placed by the side of the pipe. The Lodge-maker 

 offered a short prayer. After this he plucked some wool from 

 his robe and handed it to the Chief Priest, who made a pad 

 of it. The Lodge-maker moved to the south of the Chief Priest, ex- 

 tended his hands in front of him, closed his eyes, and turned his 

 head, while the Chief Priest spat in his hands after the usual fashion. 



(See Fig. i8.) The 

 Lodge-maker rubbed his 

 hands together, and 

 pressed them to his head ; 

 then he held his palms 

 upward and put the 

 palm of his left hand on 

 the ground. The Chief 

 Priest with his right 

 hand grasped the right 

 hand of the Lodge-maker 

 and caused him to pick 

 up, after making four 

 passes, the buffalo wool, 

 and place it in the palm 

 of his left hand. Still 

 having his hand guided by the Chief Priest, the Lodge-maker picked 

 up the westermost of the two tampers and placed it beside the pipe. 

 In the same manner he made four passes with his hand towards the 

 other tamper, picked it up, and laid it on the buffalo wool. He then 

 partially closed the fingers of his left hand four times, thus drawing the 

 buffalo nearer, then he closed his hands over the wool and the end 

 of the stick, which he now grasped with his right hand and rolled 

 in the wool, thus wrapping it around the end of the tamper. He 

 now gave the tamper to the Chief Priest, who arranged the wool 

 about the stick more perfectly. Then the Chief Priest took the 

 hand of the Lodge-maker as before, made a circular motion toward 

 the ground, then four passes with the thumb, then one toward the 

 southeast, one toward the southwest, one toward the northeast, and 

 one toward the center, thus forming a new or third earth. The Chief 

 Priest enlarged the circular space and made it more perfect. The 

 two tampers were now deposited on the ground just east of the pipe ; 

 that is, east of the pipe and this newly formed Earth. (See Fig. 19.) 

 The pipe-stem was pointed as before by the Chief Priest, then the pipe 

 was lighted and passed along the line, each one smoking. The pipe was 



Fig. 18. 



The Chief Priest preparing Lodge-maker's 

 hands. 



