1920.] Lowie, Crow Tobacco Society. 159 



Child-in-the-mouth also entered the sudatory on the morning fol- 

 lowing adoption. Two men with Tobacco medicine sat on either side of 

 him. They took some sagebrush and rubbed it over his body, from the 

 head downward, which was called 'washing him off.' The sweating 

 ritual otherwise seems to have conformed to type. After the close of 

 ceremonies the sacks laid on the lodge were taken off by each owner, 

 and all went home. They proceeded to a dance lodge and the members 

 who had received horses given as Child-in-the-mouth's initiation fee 

 presented him with Tobacco and bags for it. 



According to Gray-bull, the four song instructors sweat with the 

 novice, and the Owner of the adoption lodge puts up a second sweat- 

 lodge and joins the other members of the chapter. 1 He said that in the 

 adoption of Jim Carpenter in 191.1 the sweatlodge ritual took place on the 

 evening of the day of the public initiation. The object of the ritual is to 

 promote the novice's welfare. In the selection of medicines Gray-bull 

 himself took some from the four song instructors, but otherwise Bell-rock 

 and White-stripe-across-the-face chose for him. He got a black wolf, 

 some red feathers, a whip, and two eagle tails. His wife also got 

 medicines; from the wife of one of the song instructors she took a piece 

 of shell tied to an elk-tooth dress. The woman who gave her this had 

 shells for her bcitsirdpe; shells had at one time entered her body and on 

 certain occasions she was able to make them come out of her mouth. 



Cuts-the-picketed-mule was taken to sweat on the morning after 

 the public initiation. Four sweat! odges were erected, but she did not 

 describe their uses. In the evening there was a great Tobacco dance 

 and she was ordered to prepare plenty of food and gifts. The members 

 of the Eagle chapter sat on one side, those of the Yellow Tobacco 

 chapter on the other. My informant was requested to pick out what 

 objects she wished. Beginning with the Yellow Tobacco chapter, she 

 selected a yellow robe and dress, a yellow lizard, an otterskin headband, 

 an eagle plume for the forehead, yellow bracelets, earrings with abalone 

 shell, a yellow muffler and a Tobacco sack, for which alone she paid a 

 horse. She took four packages of Tobacco. Starting on the Bird side, 

 she chose a red dress and a breastpin with an elk tooth and abalone shell, 

 two eagle wings, a big Tobacco bag, a breast ornament, and a bracelet 

 of sacred beads and shells for which last-mentioned object she paid a 

 colt. She paid individually for all these medicines, giving, e.g., a horse 



J It is not clear to me whether this means that the Owner joins the novice and his instructors, merely 

 putting up a separate sudatory as a matter of form; or, as seems more likely, sweats in the epe:-ial suda- 

 tory with some of the rest of the chapter. / 



