LAFLESCHB] TRIBAL RITES— FREE TRANSLATION 139 



143. When the httle ones use this part of my body as medicine, 



144. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



145. Behold, the muscles of my breast, 



146. Which I have made for use as medicine. 



147. When the little ones use this part of my body as medicine, 



148. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



149. Behold also my heart sack, 



1.50. Which I have made for use as medicine (usetl as a receptacle 

 for the medicinal fat). 



151. When the little ones use this part of my body as medicine, 



152. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



153. The muscles of my limbs, 



154. Those of the various parts of my body, 



155. Verily, the muscles of every part of my body, 



156. The little ones shall use as medicine. 



157. Wlien they use my body in all its parts as medicine, 



158. Verily they shall enable themselves to live to see old age as tiiey 



travel the path of life. 



159. When the people of the Wa-zha'-zhe 



160. And those of the Ho°'-ga 



161. Use my body in all its parts as medicine, 



162. They shall enable themselves to>live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



U-dse'-the A-do^'-be, Keeper of the Fireplace 



At the beginning of this ceremony the man who was the last to be 

 initiated into the mysteries of this rite is chosen to act as U-dse'-the 

 A-do°-bc, Keeper of the Fireplace. As the No^'-ho^-zhi^-ga enter 

 the lodge to take their places this oflicer takes his appointed seat 

 near the door, where he tloes not represent any gens but, rather, all 

 of the people. When the A'-ki-ho° Xo-ka performs the ceremony of 

 Wa-the'-the, The Sending (of the Symbolic Articles), he sends with 

 a fee a bundle of counting sticks to the U-dse'-the A-do°-be. The 

 Sho'-ka, who carries the bundle of sticks, divides it into two parts, 

 one containing 70 and the other 60 sticks. He holds in his right 

 hand the bunch containing 70 sticks and in his left the bunch having 

 60. He crosses his forearms at the wrists and in this manner carries 

 the counting sticks to the U-dse'-the A-do°-be, who receives and 



