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were adopted at this season, when the adoption lodge was erected after 

 the planting, but now they adopt at any time. 



A matter of some importance omitted in the preceding reports but 

 repeatedly referred to by natives is the lying at the garden after the 

 planting in order to get a vision. Tobacco songs, more particularly, 

 originate in this fashion. The following is Gray-bull's experience: 



I once lay at the garden for three days and nights. I slept. In the morning I 

 got into water up to my breasts, faced upstream and downstream and stayed all day 

 until sunset. My body felt as though pricked. All my body was wrinkled up when I 

 got out. I got out quickly and lay down in the shade. All my body felt as if pricked 

 with needles. I lay down again by the garden and saw a man singing this song and 

 going through different movements, and I now (1911) dance with it. 



bi 6pak. baxua k'ota 6pak. 



I am Tobacco. My body all over is Tobacco. 



At the first sentence the singer gently moved his hand forward, which was clenched, 

 but not tightly, at the second sentence he touched his body. After I got home I 

 found my Tobacco growing very well and thought the song had something to do with 

 it. The people asked whether I had seen anything and I told them of my vision. Then 

 all said, " Thanks! We shall surely have a good crop." 



Muskrat said that in 1914 a vision was sought at the garden by 

 Flat-dog and the wife of Not-mixed because they were in mourning. 

 They fasted while the rest were going through the ceremony and entered 

 the garden when the others had gone away. Flat-dog had a vision to the 

 effect that he was going to have a fine Tobacco crop. My interpreter 

 explained, as is obvious from other accounts, that mourning is not a 

 necessary condition for seeking a revelation at the garden. 1 



Though never present at a planting ceremony I repeatedly inspected 

 and photographed Tobacco gardens and append the following descrip- 

 tion of the one seen at Lodge Grass on June 25, 1910, with explanatory 

 comments subsequently secured. All those seen later and elsewhere 

 (Fig. 12) conformed rather closely to this type. 



It was situated at the foot of a hill and consisted of two enclosures, 

 the smaller one (which was less extensive even than the area allotted to 

 a single chapter in the larger garden) serving for the planting of seeds 

 left over after the main garden had been planted. This main garden 

 was an oblong about six yards in width and approximately sixty yards 

 in length. It was divided into half a dozen small plots belonging to 

 the several chapters. The boundary lines of adjoining plots were 

 in one or two cases indicated by parallel rows of little willow wickets 



l Curtis (IV, 67) says the fasters were young men who had had no success in warfare, but the motives 

 were obviously more varied tha. 1 . his account would indicate. 



