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column the southwest. Part four completed this scene and the medicine 

 actors passed out beyond the circle of light. 



The next ten scenes were similar to the scene just described, except 

 that when lookers-on went to sleep the Satanic majesty woke them up 

 with his trident and made them dance, there being twenty-seven sleepy 

 ones dancing at one time. 



Just as day began to dawn the twelfth and last scene began. The 



Chief Brig'ham Yountr. of the Apache;^ 



medicine dancers appeared, were sprinkled with the sacred dust, and 

 began to perform over the sick one as in the previous ten scenes with the 

 exception that they used medicine hoops instead of wands. These hoops 

 were two and one-half feet in diameter, were five in number, were made 

 of willow, and were painted so that the five represented the rainbow in 

 color which they were intended to represent. Besides being painted, 

 each hoop had five eagle feathers suspended from it. 



