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that they should renew their arrow sticks four times. If the feathers 

 are to be renewed, a steady, healthy, clean, good man is appointed 

 l>v the medicine-men to tie the feathers and handle the sacred arrows. 

 When removing the arrows from the bundle, the points are held 

 towards the camp-circle opening, where no one is sitting or standing. 



• GREAT MEDICINE MEN& PLACE 



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Fir, s, s.htimI Lodge during the Arrow Ceremony. 



If any part of the feathers of the arrows is to be renewed, it is done on 

 the third May. All medicine-men who go there do not stay all the 

 time, but take turns, just as the warriors do; but the man who makes 

 the ceremony is there with the Prophet and assistant Keepers all the 

 time. 



Third Day. — The medicine-men prepare small, long, round willow 

 . about one yard long. These they split in two. Sometimes 



