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enemy in general, which are conceived of as scalped. The Cheyenne 

 name their chief enemies in the following order: Ute, Pawnee, Crow, 

 Assinaboin, Shoshoni, and Ponca. 



The assistant Chief Priest painted with red, and added a coat of 

 red downy feathers to the upper part of the plum-tree and the cotton- 

 wood-tree on the south side, and painted their bases black and applied 

 black downy feathers; Galloping painted the two trees on the north 

 side with white and coated them with white downy feathers. These 

 feathers are symbolic of all birds and of all food. Now they must 

 come forth with the growth of the earth. 



The altar (See PI. XLVI.), and consequently the lodge, was now 

 complete. It is often spoken of as the willow lodge because all wear 

 willow wreaths. Formerly all the warriors at this time hung their 

 shields and medicine bundles on the lodge and it was called the 

 Growth or New Birth lodge. While the altar as a whole represents 

 this earth, the fifth in the series, and symbolizes the supreme medicine 

 being, the lodge itself represents the heavens, or universe. No men- 

 struating woman may come within the lodge now, for the dancers are 



Fig. 79. Auaching downy feathers to the ahar sticks. 



