May, 1905. 



The Cheyenne — Dorsev 



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Before sunrise on this morning the young man who was to un- 

 dergo the ordeal, with Bushy-Head, the medicine man, and an assist- 

 ant, went to the south side of the eastern entrance. There two small 

 skewers about two inches in length and an eighth of an inch in diameter 

 were inserted in the subject's back by Bushy-Head after the manner 



Fig. 105. Diagram showing method 

 of attaching torture thongs. 



Fro. 106. Individual with thongs attached 

 to back. (Carpenter.) 



described. (See Figs. 105 and 106.) Over each of these was looped a short 

 buckskin band, which in turn was made fast to one end of a lariat, to the 

 other end of which were attached two fragments of old buflfalo skulls. 



(See PI. LX VIII. and 

 Fig. 107.) These he 

 dragged around the 

 inside of the camp- 

 circle and back to the 

 starting-point. The 

 time occupied in 

 traversing the, ap- 

 jjroximately , two 

 miles, was from 

 thirty-five to forty- 



FiG. 107. Dragging buffalo skulls attached to back. ^^^ minutes. Hav- 

 (Mooney.) ing completed the 



