May, 1905. 



The Cheyenne — Dorsey. 



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painted brown so as to make it look old, thus expressing the wish 

 that the dancers will grow old. 



b. The white-Black-, or Cyclone-paint. 



This variety of the so-called Black-paint, and representing the 

 white cyclone, was the third paint of the second day. (See PI. LIX., 

 Fig. 6.) It differed from that described in the color of the dragon-flies, 

 which were now white instead of green, and in the color of the body 

 below the waist and the elbow lines, which was now white instead of 

 pink; the mark- 

 ings made by 

 the willows were 

 pink instead of 

 red. (See Fig. 

 104.) According 

 to one of my 

 informants the 

 upper part of 

 the body in this 

 variety should 

 have been blue 

 instead of black. 

 A variation in 

 this paint may 

 be worn by those 

 who have missed 



none of the paints during the dance ; they have the privilege of having 

 their right arm painted entirely black with an extra large sun symbol 

 on the breast, and an extra large moon symbol on the back. 



SPECIAL PAINTS WORN IN 1903. 



A certain individual whose name was not learned, for the first 

 paint of 1903 was decorated differently from the other dancers. 

 (See PI. LX., Fig. a.) This was due to the fact that his grandfather, 

 or the one who painted him, possessed a certain kind of dream-paint. 

 The dancer's entire body was painted yellow. Around his face was 

 a line in red passing over his eyebrows and across the middle of his 

 chin; beneath each eye was a forked symbol representing lightning. 

 On his breast was a large circular sun symbol, and on his right shoulder 

 was a large red moon symbol. On the outer upper and lower arms and 

 outer and upper and lower legs were short red lines about four 

 inches in length. A red band encircled his wrists and ankles. 



1 U . 1 O ) . 



tanccrs wearing thf wliilc Cyclimc-painl. 



