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the Lodge-maker's wife, the Chief Priest and the Lodge-maker sat 

 down by a bowl of water. The former touched his finger to the 

 ground, to his tongue, took a bite of root, and spat into the water five 

 times, first to the southeast, then in the southwest, the northwest, and 

 the northeast corners, and finally in the center. The Lodge-maker moved 

 his head gently toward the water four times, and then a fifth time, but 

 with a much more decided movement, and drank from the water. As 

 soon as the dancers had washed themselves they drank, without 

 formality, from pails of water which had been brought by their 

 relatives. Then each one caused violent vomiting by tickling his 

 throat with a grass stem (see Fig. 102), after which each one was 



Ik;. 102. The emetic. (Mooney.) 



taken by his grandfather to a sweat-lodge which had been erected by 

 relatives during the close of the ceremony. This sweat bath did 

 not differ from the ordinary sweat bath. It is merely a purification 

 rite, and is said to depend for its efficacy on the sage on which the 

 bathers sit. 



SMOKING THE SACRED PIPE. 



The lodge was now completely deserted except by the Chief Priest, 

 the Lodge-maker, and two priests who sat on the northeast side of the 

 altar. The Lodge-maker removed the sacred pipe from the altar, got a 

 live coal from the fireplace and placed it in front of the Chief Priest, 

 who lighted the pipe and offered the stem to the four painted reach 

 poles, to the center-pole, to the altar, to the earth, and then smoked. 

 The pipe was passed from the east end of the line toward the west, 

 each priest smoking it ; it was handed back unsmoked to the east end 



