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transact the business of the (ril)e, hikI thence the various orders per- 

 taining to the ceremony were carried to the people by the Crier. 

 Members of the tribe did not approach, and chil(h'en and do^s were 

 kept away from the vicinity l)ecause the buffalo skull to be used in the 

 ceremony of the Sim dance lay at the west of this tent. During the 

 four days preceding the ceremony the skull lay on a bed of fresh sage 

 outside the council tent, in a position corresponding to the place of 

 honor inside the tent. The ceremonial lines of red paint had not yet 

 been placed on the skull, but the openings in it were filled with sage. 

 The use of sage around the buffalo skull was in accordance with the 

 instructions given by the White Buffalo Maiden. (See p. 64.) It 

 was said, too, that "the sage was used because the buffalo sought for 

 it on the prairie and rolled their great bodies on its fragrant leaves." 

 The sage used in this connection was identified as Artemisia gnaphalodes 

 Nutt. 



A month before the Sun dance the wakay'luiy (medicine-men; see 

 p. 245) prayed for fair weather, singing, burning sweet grass, and offer- 

 ing their pipes to the sky, the earth, and the cardinal points. Before 

 burning the sweet grass, a medicine-man prepared a spot of bare 

 ground, placing a few coals in the middle of it. Then, taking a 

 bunch of sweet grass, he offered it to the sky, the earth, and the 

 cardinal points, after which he singed it over the coals. While it was 

 smoking, he offered it again to the sky, the earth, and the cardinal 

 points. It is said that the efforts .of the medicine-men were always 

 successful, and that the oldest men can not remember the faUingof rain 

 during a Sun dance. 



The following song was especially favored for securing fair weather; 

 it is one of the songs which have descended from Dreamer-of-the- 

 Sun, who died about the year 1845. (See p. 88.) 



No. 4. Song for Securing Fair Weather (Catalogue No. 497) 

 Sung hy Red Bird 

 Voice J= 72 

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