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SLAT ALTAR HERE 
MEDICINE MEN SIT HERE 
Ficure 43.—Altar of the Flint society used in curing ceremony. Medicinemen sit behind 
their slat altar. In front of this is the sand painting with the iarikos (corn-ear fetishes), 
represented by the circles, at the rear of the painting; they are “sitting” on a bed of 
white cornmeal. In front of the iarikos is a band of alternating black and white sand. 
In front of this are four ‘‘clouds” made of white sand upon an area of spruce needles 
ground fine. A road of cornmeal runs from the door to a medicine bowl on the area of 
spruce needles. Then there is another band of alternating black and white rectangles. 
The two big clouds, at the top of the sketch, are made of white sand; the lightnings are 
white with black points. 
