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a six foot circle of forty cobble-stones. The sticks falling with a cer- 

 tain side up are favorable to the recovery of the patient. Knowing 

 that the patient will die, the medicine man plays to lose the game. 

 Insert: "The sick one grows steadily worse day by day." 



Fig. 2. The Medicine Staff, witli dangling medicine pouches. 



Fig. 3. Game Field of the Medicine Game, showing the "cobble-stone circle" and 

 counting sticks in place showing the counts received (they are the sticks lying between 

 the cobble-stones). The two wide spaces are designated "water". Should the tallies 

 be such as to place a tally-stick in either of these spaces, the player loses all the 

 points he has made in that game-count and, consequently, must begin the count again. 

 The game sticks, as they have fallen within the circle in the cut, count the thrower two 

 points. One hundred and sixty-four continuous points constitute a game. 



Scene 20. — Subtitle: "The Gunelpieya Medicine Disk Ceremonies." 

 A horseman rides swiftly up the valley and summons the people 

 to make a medicine disk (fig. 4). 



