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bad ones had some stones at the front of their lodge, and they 

 colored them as well as their own hair, orange-red (zhee.) They 

 wore the down of the white goose' (or swan) in their hair, and 

 branches of cedar around their heads, being frightful to behold. 

 So the old men passed to the good ones, to whom they gave one of 

 the pipes." According to Joseph La Fleche and Two Crows, there 

 are four of the sacred stones, their colors being black, red, yellow, 

 and blue. (One tradition is that the stones were made by the 

 Coyote in ancient times, to be used for conjuring enemies.) In 

 the Osage tradition, the four kinds of stone found at the first, were 

 white, black, red, and blue (or green.) 



In reply to a question put by the- President, Mr. Dorsey said that 

 among the Dakotas, Ponkas, and other related tribes, there was a 

 worship paid to boulders found on the prairies, these being regarded 

 as representatives of the Earth-god. When an Indian met one of 

 them, he addressed it as " Grandfather," the same term that is 

 applied by many tribes to the President of the United States 

 (wrongly translated the " Great Father.") This term, Grandfather, 

 is applied to supernatural beings. On addressing such a boulder, 

 the Indian laid on it a small quantity of tobacco wrapped in a 

 piece of cloth or skin, and then he smoked his pipe toward it, 

 asking the Grandfather to help him in his journey or undertakrng. 



Colonel James Stevenson read a paper on the " Mythological 

 Painting of the Zunis." 



discussion. 



Col. Mallery presented the following account of Yuma cere- 

 monies witnessed at Camp Verde, Atizona, as related by Dr. W. 

 H. Corbusier, U. S. A. : "All the medicine-men meet occasion- 

 ally, and with considerable ceremony make medicine. They went 

 through the performance early in the summer of 1874, on the 

 Reservation, for the purpose of averting the diseases with which 

 the Indians vvere afflicted the summer previous. In the middle of 

 one of the villages they made a round ramada — or house of boughs- 

 some ten feet in diameter, and under it on the sand, illustrated the 

 spirit-land, in a picture about seven feet across, made in colors by 

 sprinkling powdered leaves and grass, red clay, charcoal, and ashes 

 on the smoothed sand. In the centre was a round spot of red clay 

 about ten inches in diameter, and around it several successive rings 



