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GIFT OF CHANGING WOMAN — BASSO 



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IRRIGATION DITCH 



SWEAT 

 BATH 



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Figure 4. — Na ih es dance ground. 



They cut down a lot of trees and made them the right length and brought them 

 back. Then we made the shade. The men put in the posts and made the top 

 and the women made the sides mostly. It sure took us a long time to make that 

 shade. About a week, I think. We didn't do it all alone because some more 

 relatives came and helped us out. My wife's brother and his wife came, and so 

 did my sister and her husband. They didn't have to come. I didn't ask them. 

 But they sure wanted to help me out. All those people went home at night but 

 they came back in the morning. We always gave them some food and tulipay 

 when they finished working. When that big shade was all over, we started on 

 food shelters. They're easy to make, because you don't need big logs for posts. 

 We made two of them in about 2 days, but we took it easy. After that we 

 brought some food up there. We didn't bring all we bought for na ih es, just 

 enough to last until bi goh ji tal. About this time my cross-cousin went to see 

 what yearlings we should butcher. He and some others got them and put them 

 in the bull pasture by Cowboy Springs. We didn't butcher until 2 days before 

 na ih es so we left them there. 



Stage Two— July 30, 1960: 



Our camp was finished up there and more people came to help us make shades 

 for na ihl esn. We built them on the other side of the dance area from where 



