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the singing of the third song, accompanied as before by the irregular 

 rattling, they performed the right arm movement as during the first 

 song. Then they went back to the north side, where the same 

 movements were performed eight times with the left arm. During 

 the fourth song the criers outside were calling for the relatives of 

 the dancers. 



Sixth Sougs. 



Led by Black-Man, they went back to the south side of the lodge 

 and faced the center-pole, raising the right arm four times. Main- 

 taining the same position and in double line, they revolved and 

 faced toward the southwest and passed toward the northwest comer 

 of the lodge and again faced the center-pole. During this first song 

 they raised their left arms four times. Again they turned in their 

 tracks, and led by Black-Man, went to the southwest side of the 

 lodge, where they faced the center-pole, and during the singing of 

 the second song raised their left hand eight times. The line passed 

 back to the north side of the lodge and with their backs toward 

 the center-pole they raised their left arms seven times. They wheeled 

 and faced the center-pole and the line moved, stepping side wise 

 and toward the east. Black-Man and the Lodge-maker left their 

 places and went to the center of the line. They all faced the center- 

 pole. In this position the third song was begun, and they moved 

 both arms toward the center-pole nine times. Maintaining that 

 position, they wheeled and faced east; the fourth song was sung 

 and they moved both arms seven times. 



Seventh and Eighth So)igs. 

 Still maintaining the same position, they turned toward the 

 center-pole; the first song was sung and they raised their hands 

 toward the center-pole seven times. Occupying the same place, 

 they turned their backs to the center-pole and the line opened out 

 in length, and with the second song they blew their whistles at short 

 intervals, both arms swinging back and forth, first to the right and 

 then to the left, each man's hand joining that of his neighbor. This 

 movement continued throughout the third, a very long song, the 

 swinging motion being slight. The fourth song was begun and 

 this same motion continued, as it did during the first three succes- 

 sive songs of the eighth group. At the end of the fourth song the 

 priests beat more rapidly than before upon the rawhide, and the 

 dancers blew vociferously and long upon their whistles and then 

 resumed their places either on the north or south side of the lodge, 

 according to their former positions, and sat down. 



