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oblong and returns to the Mixer. In a low voice he reports that he had 

 gone out on a war party, struck a coup against the enemy and on his 

 return trip got to the garden site; that he saw plenty of Tobacco and 

 berries, and buffalo near. by. The Mixer tells this aloud and every one 

 then utters the wish that the people may eat cherries, have plenty of 

 Tobacco, etc. Some of the young men would wish for coups. The Mixer 

 then takes a sharp stick, holds its point towards the ground, sings four 

 songs, and at the close of each feigns punching a hole until at the fourth 

 song he actually makes a hole two inches deep. Then the seed is put 

 into the holes by the members. When one chapter is done planting, 

 the men all sing songs, one after another, and the musicians take them 

 up. Then all the male and female members dance on the site, standing 

 on one side and facing the garden. After this dance they eat. 



Pretty-tail does not assign the same part to the Mixers and is 

 more explicit as to the actual planting. After the assignment of space 

 within the garden the women stand just inside the site facing away from 

 it, with digging-sticks in one hand and the Tobacco seed in the other. 

 The men sit facing the women. The women dance, pointing their sticks 

 at the ground. After the singing of four songs each woman punches a 

 hole in the ground, then each walks backward along the space allotted 

 to her. The husbands follow in their wake, walking forward and drop- 

 ping the seeds into the holes. When their labors are done, the women 

 line up across the far end of the garden. The women retrace their steps 

 to the rear end. Each Mixer is seated opposite his own plot and group 

 of members, and sings four songs ; to which the women dance. Then the 

 ordinary members go home, while the Mixers and their wives remain to 

 make more medicine. They sing and shake rattles, finally they too go 

 home. On the same night they must have a dance. 



There is a further difference as to the events after the planting 

 ceremonial. Pretty-tail leaps at once to the erection of an adoption lodge 

 on the morning following the happenings described in the preceding 

 paragraph, while Gray-bull describes a sweatlodge ritual following im- 

 mediately the plantation dance and feast. Four sweatlodges are con- 

 structed, according to him, by the Mixers who sang at the four stops of 

 the procession. The medicines are laid on the sweatlodges and only 

 members of the society enter, all those of one chapter going in together. 

 In the sudatory it was not the Mixer who had sung at the halting places 

 but some other members that sang at each opening of the lodge and 

 dreams were told in the fashion typical of the sudatory ritual. 



