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speaking of the paints, of calling the altar day the first day, is as 

 follows : 



Day Number of Paint Name of Paint 



First First Yellow 



Second Second Pink 



Third Third White (Hail) 



a Green 

 b White 

 Fourth Fourth Black (Cyclone) 



a Green 

 b White 

 It will be seen that this scheme takes no notice of the fact that all 

 the dancers were painted white on their introduction to the lodge on the 

 night of its erection. In comparing the paints worn in the ceremony of 

 1903 with the scheme given above, it will be noticed that on the first da}'" 

 the Yellow-paint and the Green-Hail-paint were represented, although, 

 as will be seen, on the second day the white-Hail paint and the green 

 and white Cyclone paint were represented. Consequently, in describ- 

 ing the paints I shall speak of the first and second paints of the first day, 

 and the first, second, and third paints of the second day, in 

 order that they may be localized as regards particular events 

 which have already been described. It should be borne in mind, how- 

 ever, that while the first paint of the first day is the first paint, the 

 second paint of the first day should be the second day's paint. The 

 first paint of the second day, the Hail-paint, should belong to the third 

 day, while the second and third paints of the second day, the Black or 

 Cyclone-paint, belong properly to the fourth day. It is also to be 

 noted here that part of the time the Lodge-maker's wife wore paints 

 not represented by the other dancers ; also that one individual wore 

 paint different from the others; and finally, that the two Arapaho, 

 being painted by Arapaho, wore paints which were quite foreign to 

 the general scheme of the Cheyenne ceremony. It remains, there- 

 fore, to describe in order the paint worn by the Lodge-maker's wife, 

 certain peculiarities of the Lodge-maker's paint, the regular paint, 

 the paint worn by a single individual, and finally the paint worn by 

 the two Arapaho. 



PAINTS WORN BY THE LODGE-MAKER'S WIFE. 



First Paint. The paint about to be described was worn by 

 both the lodge-maker and his wife on the morning of the erection of 

 the altar, and hence may be considered as the first paint of the first 

 day. The entire bodies of both individuals (see PI. LV., Fig. a) were 



