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painted yellow ; the paint on the face and body was given a ribbed or 

 grained effect by drawing the tips of the fingers over it before it was dry. 

 Over this yellow paint across the face just above the mouth were laid 

 two parallel rows of ten green dots. Upon the breast was placed a cir- 

 cular symbol of the sun, made of two concentric circles of green dots; 

 a similar arrangement of dots was made to form the crescent-shape 

 moon symbol on the back of the right shoulder. Around the wrists 

 and ankles were also two parallel rows of green dots. According to 

 one of the priests, this paint, as above described and worn on this day, 

 was incorrect; he contended that the sun and moon symbols and the 

 lines about the wrists and ankles should not have been made by 

 means of dots, but of narrow, black, continuous lines. 



With this paint were worn a waist-band of sage; wreaths of sage 

 about wrists and ankles ; and the usual five bunches of sage inserted in 

 the waist-band. Thrust into the hair at the back of the head was a 

 stem of sweet-grass. 



2.— THE PINK-PAINT. 



The appropriate paint of the second day is known as the Pink- 

 paint. It was not worn by any of the dancers of the 1903 ceremony, 

 although the Lodge-maker wore a modification of it. The illustration 

 here given"(see PI. LVII., Fig. b) and the description are from the 1901 

 ceremony. The entire body was painted pink, over which were mark- 

 ings of fine, small willow leaves made by sharply slapping the body 

 with young willow boughs which had been dipped in paint. Upon 

 the breast was a large black sun symbol ; around the face was a black 

 line passing over the middle of the forehead, across the chin, and just in 

 front of the ears ; on the back of the right shoulder was a large moon 

 symbol in black ; around each wrist and each ankle was a black encir- 

 cling band. With this paint were worn a willow leaf head-band and 

 waist-band, and willow wreaths about the wrists and ankles. 



3.— THE WHITE- OR HAIL-PAINT. 



The White or Hail paint is known as the third paint and in a cere- 

 mony of four fasting days belongs to the third day. There are two 

 varieties of this paint, one known as the green-Hail, the other as the 

 white-Hail; the first should be worn in the forenoon, the second in the 

 afternoon. 



a. The green-White-, or Hail-paint. 



Owing to the crowding of the events of the ceremony in 1903 this 

 variety of the Hail-paint was worn on the afternoon of the first day, as 

 the second paint of that day. It closely resembled the paint worn by 



