48 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 80 
The Goose Women used the same paint, because their society was 
founded by the same man.” ® 
MEETING oF THE BiAack Mourn Socrery 
When the Black Mouth Society held a meeting the members were 
seated in an open curve, the raven-rod bearers being at the ends of 
the curve (fig. 3). Next them were two men with rattles, which were 
described as “little boxes with pebbles in them.” At the back of 
the curve were stationed four singers with large hand drums, and at 
some distance in front of them were two men holding pipes that were 
said to be “calu- 
i E mets” and used in 
aie ate negotiations of 
Path of Dancers peace. These pipes 
were complete, with 
bowl and stem.° It 
was said that the 
~ pipe bearers held 
the pipes in front 
of them, chest high, 
using both hands 
and holding the 
mouthpiece of the 
pipe away from 
©O0O 
o Lance bearer. them as though offer- 
@ Man with rattle. ing it to someone. 
~ Pipe bearer. They stood with 
© Drums. M heads bowed, took 
+ Part of row of dancers. no notice of persons 
Fic. 3.—Diagram showing movements of men in ceremony of aroun d them and 
’ 
Black Mouth: Society. j 
kept time to the 
music by slightly bending their knees. They did not dance nor move 
from the place where they stood. 
The raven-rod bearers walked back and forth across the entrance 
to the circle during the dancing, and a song was not begun until 
the raven-rod bearers had left their places. The men with the rattles 
started the songs, which were at once taken up by the singers with 
the drums. The rattle bearers moved around the circle, passing 
between the singers and the men who held the pipes. The dancers 
63 Lowie, Societies of the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians, pp. 313-314. This contains 
also an account of a meeting of the society. 
¢ Cf. Calumet,” Bull. 30, Bur. Amer. Ethn., Handbook of American Indians, pp. 191— 
195. 
