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Scene 5. — The musicians enter and begin to beat tom-toms (pots 

 with rawhide stretched over their open faces). 



Scene 6. — The medicine man stops singing, spits in the fire, and 

 sprinkles the sick one with cattail flag pollen. He then resumes his 

 singing with posture as before. 



Scene 7. — The medicine man produces a crudely made, striped, 

 wooden snake. This he places in the hot ashes a moment. He then 

 places its head on the afflicted parts of the bared body of the patient 

 in four different directions, corresponding to the semi-cardinal directions. 

 As he thus places it, he sings and points respectively to the gods who 

 are holding up the four corners of the earth. He then burns the Avooden 

 snake, as he sends the evil spirits away with a hissing breath and looks 

 with elevated face toward the northeastern heavens. 



Scene 8. — The medicine man produces a wooden frog and performs 

 with it same as he had performed with the snake in 7. 



Scene 9. — The medicine man resumes his singing with posture as 

 in scene 3. 



Scene 10. — The medicine man produces a wooden carving, an effigy 

 of his leading medicine god (fig. 1). This he places on the sick woman 

 as he did the snake in Scene 7. 



Fig. 1. The Feathered LifchtninK Effijiy. 



Scene 11. — He hides the medicine god in a niche in the rocks of a 

 neighboring cliff. 



Scene 12. — The sun comes up and the ceremonies cease. But the 

 patient is worse. 



Scene 13. — Night brings the medicine man and the musicians to 

 doctor the sick one again. 



Scene 14. — The medicine man sings over the sick one; the musicians 

 beat the tom-toms. 



Scene 15. — The medicine man performs over the sick one with five 

 medicine hoops some two feet in diameter and colored to represent the 

 colors of the rainbow, perfoiTning the same as he did with the snake 

 in Scene 7. 



Scene 16. — He then takes the hoops and hides them in a niche in 

 the rocks on a nearby mountain side. 



Scene 17. — He performs over the sick one with medicine stick 

 (fig. 2) as with the snake in Scene 7 and then burns it. 



Scene 18. — He performs over the sick one with a medicine cane as 

 with the snake in Scene 7. He afterwards buries the cane in the floor 

 of the tepee. 



Scene 19.— Subtitle: "The Medicine Game." 



He plays the medicine game (fig. 3) with four flat splints with a 

 chosen partner. The sticks are bounced on a flat rock in the center of 



