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about the parufe as the center. Each sun shelter is shared by several 

 famihes. Persons rest in them during the daytime and eat meals there. 

 Leaders and other men sleep there at night ; all others return home or 

 stay with relatives nearby for the night. 



When all has been prepared, the leader, the men with the trutruka 

 (pi. 32, /), and the machi take their positions. Men — as many as 



Fig. 3. — The qillatun in Alepiie area. (Diagram drawn 

 by an Alepue informant.) 



50 to 80, depending on the number present — mount their horses and 

 get into formation beyond the sun shelters. Other men and the women 

 and children get into solid formation to dance the parun about the 

 parufe and the machi. 



A man joins his right hand with the left hand of an unmarried 

 woman, preferably his wife's unmarried sister (never with his wife) ; 

 a young unmarried man, with an unmarried girl. Couples stand 

 abreast to a radius of approximately 15 feet. The movements of the 



