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o'clock the second day the women dance Its-ho-bun-gau (the 

 gun dance), and after twelve o'clock the men go to the new 

 fire, take some of the ashes, rub them on the chin, neck and 

 body, jump head foremost into the river, and then return 

 again into the square. The women having prepared the new 

 corn for the feast, the men take some of it and rub it between 

 their hands, and on their faces and breasts, and then feast." 



" During the third day the men sit in the square. Early 

 in the morning of the fourth day the women get the new 

 fire, clean out the hearths, sprinkle them with sand, and 

 kindle their fires. The men finish burning out the first four 

 logs, and then, rubbing themselves with the ashes on their 

 chin's, necks, and bodies, go into the water. This day salt is 

 eaten, and they dance O-bung-gau-chap-co (the long dance). 

 The fifth day four new logs are brought and placed in the 

 same position as on the first. They drink also acee, the 

 strong decoction of the cassine yupan. During the sixth 

 day they remain in the square, and on the eighth, they get two 

 large pots and their physic plants, and beat up with water. 

 The chemist (E-lic-chul-gu) blows into the decoction through 

 a small reed, and then the men drink it and rub it over their 

 joints until afternoon. They then collect old corn-cobs and 

 pine-cones, and placing them in a pot burn them to ashes. 

 Four virgins bring ashes from their houses, and having put 

 them into the pot, stir all together. The men take white 

 clay and mix it with water in two pans. A pan of this clay 

 and one of ashes are carried to the cabin of the Mico. Two 

 pans similarly filled are taken to the cabin of the warriors ; 

 with the clay and ashes they rub themselves. Two men, 

 appointed to that office, bring flowers of tobacco of a small 

 kind (itch-au-chu-le-puc-pug-gee), or, as the name imports, the 

 old man's tobacco, which was prepared on the first day, and 

 putting it in a pan in the Mico's cabin, give a little of it to 

 all who are present. The Mico and the counsellors then go 

 four times around the fire, and every time they face the east 

 throw some of the flowers into the fire. They then go and 

 stand to the west ; the same ceremony is repeated by the 

 warriors. A cane is stuck up in the cabin of the Mico, with 



