32 INDIANS. 



Second Day. — This day, about ten o'clock, the women 

 dance Its-ho-bun-gau (gun-dance). After twelve, the men go 

 to the new fire, take some of the ashes, rub them on the chin, 

 neck and belly, and jump head foremost into the river, and 

 then return into the square. The women having prepared 

 the new corn for the feast, the men take some of it and rub it 

 between their hands, then on their faces and breasts, and then 

 they feast. 



Third Day. — The men sit in the square. 



Fourth Day. — The women go early in the morning and 

 get the new fire, clean out their hearths, sprinkle them with 

 sand, and make their fires. The men finish burning out the • 

 first four logs, and they take ashes, rub them on their chin, 

 neck, and belly, and they go into the water. This day they 

 eat salt, and they dance Obungauchapco (the long dance). 



Fifth Day. — They get four new logs, and place them as 

 on the first day, and they drink a-cee, a strong decoction of 

 the cassine yupon. 



Sixth Day. — They remain in the square. 



Seventh Day. — Is spent in like manner as the sixth. 



Eighth Day. — They get two large pots, and their physic 

 plants. 1. Mic-co-ho-yon-e-juh. 2. Toloh. 3, A-che-nau. 

 4. Cup-pau-pos-cau. 5. Chu-lis-sau, the roots. 6. Tuck-thlau- 

 lus-te. 7. Tote-cul-hil-hs-so-wau. 8. Chofeinsuck-cau-fuck- 

 au. 9. Cho-fe-mus-see. 10. Hil-lis-hut-ke. 11. To-te-cuh- 

 chooc-his-see. 12. Welau-nuh. 13. Oak-chon-utch-co. 14. 

 Co-hal-le-wau-gee. These are all put into the pots and beat 

 up with water. The chemists, (E-lic-chul-gee, called by the 

 traders physic-makers,) they blow in it through a small reed, 

 and then it is drank by the men, and rubbed over their joints 

 till the afternoon. 



They collect old corn-cobs and pine burs, put them into a 

 pot, and burn them to ashes. Four virgins who have never 

 had their menses, bring ashes from their houses, put them in a 

 pot, and stir all together. The men take white clay and mix 

 it with water in two pans. One pan of the clay and one of 

 the ashes are carried to the cabin of the Mic-co, and the other 

 two to that of the warriors. They then rub themselves with 

 the clay and ashes. Two men, appointed to that office, bring 



