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As he made this cry he was supposed to call upon all the people to 

 listen, and to ask the world to listen. As they sat together under 

 one robe over the incense they simulated having connection. Thus 

 people should unite. They had connection only at this time.* Should 

 other priests have connection with their wives during the ceremony 

 they would not live long. 



To return to what was observed on this night. The Chief Priest 

 secured a piece of braided sweet-grass and his buffalo tail or sweat 

 lodge brush, and the Lodge-maker took from the fire-place a live coal. 

 The Chief Priest then left the lodge, followed by the Lodge-maker, 

 his wife, and all the other priests. Soon all returned except the Chief 

 Priest and the woman, and resumed their places in a circle. 



There followed a brief pause, at the end of which the Lodge-maker 

 arose from his place in the circle of priests, took up the rawhide and 

 carried it slowly, and as before, to the drummers sitting in the south- 

 east of the lodge, toward whom he motioned it four times and threw 

 it in amongst them, whereupon they beat upon it rapidly with the 

 rattle drumsticks which had been passed to them without formality. 

 At the end of the song the Crier was heard outside. At the end of 

 the speech of the Crier the drummers all beat upon the drum. 



THE BEGINNING OF THE DANCE. 



The drummers began shouting and soon began the first of the 

 dancing songs. The dancers arose, and formed two great semi-circles 

 on the north and south sides of the lodge, the Lodge-maker being 

 directly in front of the buffalo skull, and Sage- Woman sitting in the 

 center on the bed behind him. 



During the second song the dancers began the regular dancing. 

 The movement consisted of a slight swaying forward of the body, 

 raising the two heels from the ground simultaneously, and blowing 

 on the eagle bone whistle in unison with the singing. At this time 

 the Chief Priest and the wife of the Lodge-maker returned and passed 

 to the south of the center-pole. The Lodge-maker's wife sat down 

 on the bed just south of Sage- Woman, and the Chief Priest took his 

 place in the circle of priests. The drummers began beating upon 

 the drum and soon began the third song, and the dancers who had 

 remained standing continued the regular movement which they were 

 to keep up with but slight intermissions until the close of the cere- 

 mony. 



There followed a pause, during which time the dancers remained 



•There is reason to believe that this rite was in whole or in part performed on the night the 

 priests entered the Lone-tipi. 



