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same motions were performed and the same order of application was 

 maintained as when they were painted in the Lone-tipi on the pre- 

 ceding day by the same priests. As soon as the assistant Chief Priest 

 was well advanced in painting the Lodge-maker, the other grand- 

 fathers began painting the dancers under their charge (see PL XLVII. 

 and Fig. 80), going through the same motions; that is, rubbing 

 their hands together and making in their palms the marks which 

 have already been described. 



The character of the paints applied will be treated in another 



Fig. 81. Priest repainting the Lodge-maker's robe. (Mooney.) 



section, but it may be said here that theoretically the first paint should 

 be uniform for all the dancers. In the succeeding paints additions 

 to the prescribed paint may be applied, these additions being usually 

 the property of the painter, and known as "dream paints." An 

 exception to the rule that all should be painted in a uniform manner 

 was noted in the case of two dancers on the south side of the line who 

 bore paints different from the others. These were Arapaho, who had 

 asked permission to fast during this ceremony, as provision had not 

 been made for the Sun Dance in their own tribe. 



Big-Baby painted the head-dress of the Lodge-maker red, directing 

 his hand toward it four times, and then upward, and giving it a coat 



