78 Proceedings of Indiana Academy of Science 



Scene 21.- — In the mid-forenoon the people assemble in a protected 

 spot at the edge of the woods and proceed to make the likeness of the 

 "Sun Father" on the ground in disk form, in accordance with the Indian 

 belief. The drawing is some sixteen feet in diameter. It is the front 

 view of the massive head, with a crown for a hat and the suspended 

 "medicine squares" for a necktie. There is no nose, or neck, or body 

 shown. The eyes and eyebrows are there as is the mouth. The latter 

 is peculiar. The lips are in the form of a square set naturally with the 

 face. They are parted showing the odd-shaped mouth. This is .shaped 

 like a diamond, or square, so drawn that each of its respective corner-s 

 bisects a side of the square that forms the lips. From the mcuth at 



Fig. 4. A Medicine Disk, used at another, but similar, medicine ))eiformance. 



the left there is supported a long stemmed pipe, on which is drawn 

 the bolt lightning. And from each corner of the lips, as drawn, a fun- 

 nel-shaped wisp of the sun's rays extends out into measureless space. 

 The different parts of the drawing are variously colored in red, white, 

 black, gray and green. The red coloring matter is made from ground 

 up red sandstone; the white from ground up limestone; the green from 

 crushed leaves; the black from pulverized charcoal; and the gray from 

 a mixture of charcoal and limestone. 



Scene 22. — The disk being completed, a canvas is stretched around 

 it leaving a small doorway at the east side. 



Scene 23. — Insert: "The sick one is to be presented to the drawing 

 of the god of day; and he can either cure her or take her to his abode 

 in the immensity beyond." 



