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On the night before the Ham-po-ney, the Koy-e-a-ma-slii 

 built in the sacred dance place a bower of cedar in which 

 the dance of the morrow was to be celebrated. These 

 priests cut the cedar from the hills at the south of the 

 town and late in the afternoon came back to the place 

 loaded down with great bundles of these boughs. With 

 much raillery they decorated the beams of the bower which 

 had already been built with cedar boughs, tying them on 

 with grease-wood fibres. During this duty they were clad 

 in the manner characteristic of this priesthood as already 

 described. 



On the morning of the dance, the bower was seen to be 

 tastily decorated, and its whole interior occupied by seats 

 for the dancers. There was an elaborate shrine in the 

 middle of the building. 



Two rows of blanketed seats extended down the middle 

 of the house facing to the east. There were places for the 

 women who later take part in the ceremonies. Between 

 these seats there was made with sacred meal on the ground 

 a terraced figure with apex pointing towards the east. On 

 the eastern side of the house which was open, there was a 

 line of four seats for as many women, the 8how-ko-mosse , 

 who take* a prominent part in the dance. In front of them 

 a line of baskets, heaped up with corn, was placed and a 

 bank of feather plumes. A feather plume was placed in 

 the ground near each seat. 



The musicians sat on each side of the dancers. There 

 were two sets of drummers and one squad who accompa- 

 nied the dancers with the music of the horns. 



The character of the dance was in general the same as 

 that of the Klar-hey-wey . The dress, however, was much 

 more elaborate and the paraphernalia more striking. 



Eight women and one man danced in a row with a grace- 

 ful movement of the body slowly edging their way from 

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