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extending across the width of the garden, and separated by an empty 

 space about two feet wide. In one place there was but a single row of 

 wickets. In another case a cherry stick protruding four feet above the 

 ground had been planted in the center of the very narrow area separat- 

 ing two plots; from the cherry stick there were suspended rags of cloth. 

 The fence enclosing the whole garden was very crude, branches and tree 

 trunks being thrown together with great irregularity. 



Each plot within the garden was again subdivided, each couple 

 belonging to a chapter being entitled to plant seeds in two rows. These 

 rows were in a number of instances marked by little stones extending 



Fig. 12. Tobacco Garden with Cherry Sticks and Two Miniature Sweatlodges; Behind 

 them Part of the Enclosure is seen. 



across the width of the field. Each couple also had one cherry-wood 

 digging-stick (Figs. 1, 12), which was set in the ground near the be- 

 ginning or end of the appropriate row and served as a property mark, 

 each stick differing from all others in some respect. Thus, of those seen, 

 one was longer than the rest, another had a crooked handle at the 

 top, still another had a little willow branch tied round it near the top. 

 While nearly all the sticks were painted red, one was not painted at all 

 and had all its bark peeled off. The peeling of the bark was distinctive 

 of several specimens noted : one had the bark left at the top, another had 

 it extending halfway down. Several sticks had tied to them canvas seed- 

 bags; to others there were attached wreaths of sluegrass or juniper 

 leaves, such as women wear during the Tobacco ceremony. Gray-bull 

 derived the use of these from personal visions. He thought they helped 



