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the growth of the Tobacco in addition to serving as property marks. 

 The ways of separating plots were also due to specific visions in his 

 opinion. Most of the cherry sticks were planted on the east side of the 

 oblong, though in some cases they were set on both sides. 



In the plot of the fourth chapter, outside the line of the cherry sticks 

 and quite close to the enclosure, there was a miniature sweatlodge frame 

 formed of two willow arches crossed by five others at right angles. Its 

 diameter was from eighteen to twenty-one inches; its height about 



Fig. 13. Miniature Sweatlodge in Tobacco Garden. 



eight or nine inches. Remnants of a fire were visible and my interpreter 

 informed me that pine leaves had been smudged there. A second 

 miniature lodge was found on the opposite side. (Figs. 12, 13). 



A short distance from the garden there was a large sweatlodge of the 

 ordinary type. 



With regard to the little sudatories in the garden Plenty-hawk said 

 they were put up for lack of time to put up large ones. The small ones, 

 he added, are more powerful than the big ones and represent a prayer 

 for a good Tobacco crop. Medicine-crow said that these miniature 

 sweatlodges are made as sweatlodges for the Tobacco; isk incense is 



