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the second pinch of black paint he made a dotted line on each side 

 of the black line ; a dotted line in red on each side of the red line ; a 

 dotted line in yellow on each side of the yellow line; and a dotted 

 line of white on each side of the white line. 



The dotted or broken lines of colored sand represented stars — 

 the white first, because the white stars come first in the morning. 

 The continuous lines represent roads ; the white is that of the Lodge- 

 maker and his wife; the red is the road of the Cheyenne; the black 

 is the trail of the buffalo; the yellow is the path of the sun. The 

 entire sand picture is a symbol of the morning star. 



Fig. 76. Preparing the rainbow sticks. 



The Rainbow Sticks. 



The four sticks or bows for the rainbow which had been prepared 

 (see Fig. 76) were brought to the altar by the assistant Chief Priest. 

 He moved his hand over the smallest of the four and motioned toward 

 it four times, took it up, and inserted the two ends of it in the ground 

 at the south extremity of the excavation and between it and the 

 anterior end of the buffalo skull. With similar movements he inserted 

 the second, third and fourth bows over the first one, the fourth or 

 largest being so placed that it was immediately over the third one, 

 which, in turn, was over the second, etc. (See Fig. 77.) 



Red-Cloud took a piece of tallow, mixed it with black paint, and 

 painted the first or inner bow black. He then daubed downy feathers 

 with black paint and tallow and attached them to this bow. He 

 painted the second bow red and gave it a coat of red painted downy 



