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fingers and placed with the other ingredients. There were ten members with then- 

 wives at that time. Next day they painted up in a preparatory lodge. They had bags. 

 In coming out they sang a special song: 



"ftsi'tse asbawik-." 



" Tobacco I'll take out." 



Four times they sang this, then they came out as today. While going to the Tobacco 

 garden they made a noise in imitation of the crane. They stopped four times on the 

 way. After the fourth stop all made a dash to the garden with their medicines. They 

 cleared the ground of weeds, then they took the bark of trees, spread it on the field 

 and burnt it. After that they took buck-brush (?), and with it swept off the ashes 

 from the fire. Before planting they sang this song: 



hire*n awusawawik'. ope apambawik-. 



These I'll paint. Tobacco I'll raise. 



Then they took ropes, marked rows a certain distance apart from one another 

 and stuck cherry sticks into the ground. 1 They sang four times before planting. 

 Selecting a good (i.e. a brave) person, they made him run across the first row where 

 they were to plant and back again. Today this practice is still followed. Then 

 they planted the seeds, went away, and came back, four days later. Then the 

 mixers hid themselves. Those who went to look reported that the Tobacco was 

 peeping through the ground. They came home, singing praise songs: 



ahokacira bas'6pu9c apSre. 



Thank you very much, our Tobacco grows. 



Then ten days later 2 eatables were prepared in great quantities and they lunched 

 near the garden. They went to one end of the garden, burned ise in one corner, 

 and put a pipe toward the four quarters for the Tobacco. This song was sung: 



ak'Mpare cOrak'? ak'bapare bikv 

 The Planter where is he? The Planter am I. 



Fourteen days later they went again to harvest the Tobacco. At a later period, 

 they had adoptions. They pitched an adoption lodge. The first woman to lead the 

 procession from the preparatory lodge wore a ground-cedar wreath and put some 

 ground-cedar leaves into the bowl of her pipe. They sang the proper song four 

 times. After four stops they entered the adoption lodge. Four times they sang 

 inside, then they sent a warrior for water. On his return he made a speech as today. 

 After that all of them sang. Drums were not used; in the beginning they used rattles 

 exclusively. Presents of robes, powder horns, and other articles were given, then they 

 started the Tobacco dance. Next winter they began to use drums, everyone liked 

 this better. The privileges of raising the lodge and of passing the food began then. 



The dancers increased in number. The f tsi'tsfambice, my own chapter, is the 

 oldest of all. The Duck chapter was dreamt later so were the Weasel, Wolverene, 

 Eagle, Otter, and Yellow Tobacco chapters. Recently, there were added the Straw- 



!To mark the rows belonging to different individuals. 



2 Bull-all-the-time fails to mention the customary visit that took place seven days after the first 

 (p. 175). 



