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starting place and face toward the wall of the lodge and dance the 

 same way. Then, after this is done, they move to the north side and 

 face to the wall of the lodge and dance, and so on do the others dance, 

 by degrees ; the cows take this last part. 



White- Woman has a bed in the west of the lodge and cows and 

 calves by her side. These people cannot move or even go out to water, 

 unless the relatives and friends provide the means to give relief from 

 time to time. 



These things, which are given as payment to the grandfathers and 

 mothers, may be arrows, bags, parfleches, ponies, meat, mcft:casins and 

 other useful articles. This was not done at the first ceremony, be- 

 cause this woman, who returned, taught the people the routine of the 

 ceremony. It was an easy thing in the start, but after that, the people 

 had to pay for obtaining the rights of the lodge. 



This ceremony lasts four days, and at times the young men are pro- 

 hibited from witnessing the performance during the day. That is on 

 account of the painting and undressing of the wom.en. At the fourth 

 day these women put on their full dress to dance, the same way as at 

 every night. After dancing, they go out from the lodge and go to the 

 southeast corner of the camp-circle and walk through the tipis, then 

 come back to the center and go to the southwest corner and walk 

 through the tipis, all the women blowing their whistles. Then they 

 return to the center again, go to the northwest corner of the camp- 

 circle and go through the tipis, come back to the center and then go 

 over to the northeast comer and pass through the tipis. This is done in 

 order to cleanse the camp-circle, so that there will be no sickness among 

 the people. The fifth time, they go to the east part. Before they go, 

 a man goes out there as a spy for the people. He has a panther quiver, 

 bow and arrows, the women (buflfalo) walking together toward this 

 man, the White-BufTalo- Woman following the herd, walking with two 

 canes, very slowly. White-Buffalo- Woman stops at a distance from 

 the rest, when they are seated on the ground, as if to rest and to make 

 water. This man with bow and arrows makes a fire, which makes a 

 smoke to rise up in the air, thus giving an odor to the whole herd. 

 When the herd smell the smoke they retreat back to the lodge. Of 

 course this man (the maker of buffalo) tells his war story when he 

 makes a smoking cloud to the buffalo. 



A chief's or warrior's wife is selected to take tallow and be shot at 

 by the man. This is considered a privilege above the rest in certain 

 ways, because the people had to give up more goods, etc. When they 

 reach the lodge, this man hands the tallow and arrows to the woman, 



