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Fourth Day. The bundle of sacred arrows is taken by the assistant 

 arrow-keepers and attached to a pole which is erected in front of the 

 medicine-arrow lodge. The presents or offerings are brought out 

 and laid by the pole. The arrows may now be inspected by every 

 male of whatsoever age in the tribe. As they are inspected, addi- 

 tional offerings are made. After the inspection the warriors raze 

 the medicine-arrow lodge and re-erect it over the present site of the 

 bundle, and it is now called, the prophet's lodge. The medicine- 

 arrows are now returned to the arrow-keeper. On the night of this 

 day all the medicine-men, including the pledger, or prophet, as he 

 is now called, enter the prophet's lodge and sing the traditional 

 songs, after which the prophet prophesies. At about three o'clock 

 in the morning the lodge is uncovered, the keeper and medicine- 

 men return to the site of the tipi erected on the first day, and known 

 as the sacrifice tipi, where a sweat lodge has been erected. During 

 the sweat bath they chant four times and remove their paint, and 

 the ceremony is at an end. 



Sections 2, 3 and 4 of this memoir relate to the duties of the keeper 

 and the assistant keepers of the medicine-arrows and of the medicine- 

 men and their relation to the keeper of the arrows. 



The next section is devoted to the chiefs and describes the cere- 

 monies and rites attendant upon the election of new chiefs. The 

 camp circle is formed. A bundle, known as the chief's bundle, is 

 opened by the medicine-arrow keepers, and forty tally sticks, known 

 as the chief's sticks, are erected. The chiefs select five men, one 

 from each of the important Cheyenne bands. These men are brought 

 to the lodge and seated in a certain position, a chief's stick being 

 placed in front of each new member. Then the old chiefs in a body 

 bring in the other thirty-five men whom they have selected as new 

 chiefs, the medicine-men erecting a stick in front of each one. All 

 are now seated and the chiefs' pipe is smoked. Then one of the 

 four assistant arrow-keepers addresses the newly appointed chiefs 

 on their duties and instructs them, and appoints four Of the number 

 of the retiring chiefs, generally medicine-men, to serve as advisors. 

 These advisors are also the medicine-arrow keepers, and are so 

 selected that one represents a magic-working medicine-man, the 

 second a pledger of the arrow ceremony, or prophet, the third a Sun- 

 Dance priest, and the fourth a pledger of the buffalo ceremony. 



The remainder of this memoir, except the last section, is devoted 

 to the warrior societies. These in general are similar to the societies 

 of the Arapaho, but are different from the Arapaho in certain fea- 

 tures. Thus, they are not graduated in rank as are the Arapaho, 



