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bones were daubed all over with red ground-paint; then black dots 

 were scattered over the painted area down to the cheekbone. The 

 women had their faces painted yellow all over, then a red line was drawn 

 next to the hair line and the neck was painted yellow; on the crown of 

 the head a yellow-painted eagle feather was fixed; and an ermine skin 

 was tied to a lock of hair on the left side. 



In the Strawberry chapter Old-dog and Medicine-crow had the 

 painting prerogative; they would paint the men, and their wives the 

 women. Medicine-crow had dreamt the designs himself and transferred 

 the right to Old-dog without himself renouncing it. When there were 

 many men present, each painted half of them. They would put red 

 paint on the forehead and backwards over the hair and draw slanting 

 lines down from the eyes with their fingers. 



When the painting had been completed, a number of dances were 

 held in the preparatory tipi. The men beat drums and the women rose 

 repeatedly with unwrapped medicine objects, such as stuffed duckskins, 

 and gently swayed their bodies without moving from the spot. After a 

 number of these performances everyone rose and the woman who was to 

 lead the procession from the preparatory to the adoption lodge took a 

 position near the exit carrying a catlinite pipe (Fig. 4). She wore a 

 crown of juniper leaves and a skin in the back of her head, while the 

 other women wore a feather in the back of the head and a strip of weasel- 

 skin in the front part of the hair. According to Medicine-crow the crown 

 represents a wish for welfare, horses, etc., on behalf of everybody. 

 The leader is the wife of the Owner; the pipe generally belongs to her 

 husband and is not smoked subsequently but deposited on the altar. 



In the Strawberry adoption of 1911 there were about twelve drum- 

 mers in the rear of the preparatory tipi, while Medicine-crow, Old-dog, 

 and another man shook rattles. The women, most of them wearing elk- 

 tooth dresses, were arranged in two arcs of a circle, one on each side of 

 the entrance. Somewhat to the rear of the center the Tobacco bag 

 had been deposited in a row, with the willow stick at the extreme right 

 of this line for one entering the lodge. The arrangement may be seen 

 at a glance from the diagram (Fig. 10). 



Before the tent was left, eagle feather fans previously kept in a 

 bundle were distributed to all the women. The reason for having only 

 one willowstick was that a single individual was being initiated. Each 

 willow on such occasions has attached to it a kerchief and a small 

 Tobacco bag. Medicine-crow explained that the object of the cere- 

 monially prepared willowstick is to make the powers above see the candi- 



