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the offerings and lay them down beside the pole and the wrapper. 

 When the offerings are brought out from the Medicine-Arrow 

 lodge, all males of the tribe, from the oldest men to the youngest 

 boy baby, go to see these ancient arrows hanging outside in the 

 air for inspection. Every male knows how these medicine-arrows 

 look, and in case the medicine-men who renewed the feathers did 

 not tie them like the original they would know, but the medicine- 

 men do not often make mistakes. Here the boys bring offerings 

 again, and lay them beside the other offerings. All males view 

 these arrows, and when every male in the Cheyenne tribe has seen 

 them, the warriors go to work and take the original Medicine- 

 Arrow lodge down and erect another lodge over the place where the 

 pole with the medicine-arrows is standing, in front of the arrow- 

 lodge. This is called the Prophet's lodge. They use the same poles 

 and the same two tipis, only they get a third tipi, for they use three 

 tipi coverings to cover the Prophet's lodge, while the Medicine-Arrow 

 lodge has only two tipi covers. They make the Prophet's lodge 

 larger, so that it can accommodate every medicine-man in the tribe. 

 When this Prophet's lodge is up they bring the medicine-arrows 

 out from it and take them back to their home where the Keeper lives. 

 On the night of the fourth day all the medicine-men and the Prophet 

 go to the newly erected Prophet's lodge. Here they sing four of 

 the most sacred songs. They are the same sacred songs that the 

 original Prophet of thousands of years ago sang to them and taught 

 them. They sing the four sacred songs as they come in order. After 

 each song they prophesy, the same as the real Prophet did. They 

 chant four times, twice before midnight and twice after midnight. 

 When they have chanted four times the Prophet's lodge is uncovered 

 at about three o'clock in the morning. The Prophet and the med- 

 icine-men and the man who is carrying on the ceremony then come 

 back to where the first offering tipi was. At this place a sweat-lodge 

 has been erected during the night, after the ceremony is over at the 

 Prophet's lodge. They all come to this sweat-lodge, and the med- 

 icine-men go in and take a vapor bath. They wash off their medicine 

 so that they may go safely among their own people. They chant 

 four times in this sweat-lodge, and after that they come out. After 

 the sweat-lodge ceremony is over, and the tipi is uncovered, then the 

 Medicine-Arrow ceremonv is at an end. 



