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93. They shall enable themselves to escape all dangers, as they travel 



the path of life, 



94. Thus it shall be with the little ones, 



95. Their hanils shall always be upon their foes, as they travel the 



path of life. 



At the close of the recitation of the wi'-gi-e by the No°'-ho°-zhi"-ga 

 and when the wailing has ceased, the candidate returns to his seat by 

 the side of his Xo'-ka. The A'-ki-ho" Xo'-ka then gives to the 

 Sho'-ka the skin of the little mottled l3Tix, the animal first mentioned 

 in the wi'-gi-e, and also a little pipe wliich he has filled with tobacco. 

 As the Sho'-ka takes the pipe he wraps around the stem the head of 

 the lynx skin, letting the body hang down loosely, and having thus 

 arranged the two sacred articles l^e carries them to the man sitting at 

 the east end of the line of No"'-ho°-zhi°-ga of the Tsi'-zhu division. 

 He spreads the l.ynx skin upon the ground before the man and then 

 presents to him the little pipe and touches the tobacco within the 

 bowl with a small firebrand. The No"'-ho°-zhi''-ga draws at the 

 stem of the pipe and when the smoke passes freely he blows four 

 whiffs upon the skin of the animal chosen to be a symbol of courage. 

 In this way the Sho'-ka passes the pipe and the lynx skin from man 

 to man until all the No"'-ho°-zhi°-ga of the Tsi'-zhu division have 

 blown tobacco smoke upon the sacred emblem. When the Sho'-ka 

 reaches the west end of the lodge and all the members of the Tsi'-zhu 

 division have blown smoke upon the lynx skin he crosses over to the 

 Ho"'-ga division and moves eastward, presenting each member of 

 that division with the pipe and lynx skin until he reaches the east end 

 of the lodge. All the No°'-ho"-zhi°-ga of both divisions having per- 

 formed the ceremony of smoking upon the little mottled lynx, the 

 other animal skins, the symbols of corn-age, are smoked in the same 

 manner and in the order in which they are mentioned in the wi'-gi-e. 



This ceremony belongs to the Ho°'-ga division. It was performed 

 when a war pai;ty composed of men belonging to both the Ho"'-ga 

 and the Tsi'-zhu divisions was preparing to go against the enemy. 

 Such a war party was called Do-do" '-hi°-to°-ga. War Party in Great 

 Numbers. (See 36th Ann. Rept. B. A. E., pp. 60-62.) The animals 

 mentioned in the wi'-gi-e were those ceremonially appealed to by the 

 warriors. 



The meaning of the title of the second Smoking ceremony is not 

 strictly literal. In the title of the first Smoking ceremony all of the 

 seven spnbols are, in reality, " Wa-k'o"'-?!" or animals. In the 

 title of the second Smoking ceremony two of the symbols are not 

 animals, as the term " Wa-k'o"»'-9i" would imply, one of them being 

 "the little pipe" through which the supplications of the people are 

 vicariously offered to Wa-ko^'-da and the other the buffalo hair out 



