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skin you will be fortunate, for the black bear is a symbol of strength 

 and courage. This robe you will spread upon the ground at your 

 accustomed place in the house ready for you to sit upon while you 

 wait for the coming of the warrior. Dress yourself in any garment 

 that you think will be most becoming to you, but do not fail to 

 remember to paint the parting of your hair red. The red line sym- 

 bolizes the path of the god of day and also represents the path of 

 life. When you have put upon your head this symbol then you 

 will take your seat upon the bearskin robe and put tliis Wa-xo'-be 

 in your lap. When the warrior enters the house and approaches 

 you, do not touch the Wa-xo'-be, but let him take it liimself from 

 yom" lap. Upon the departure of the wamor from the house with 

 the Wa-xo'-be you will remove the symbol from your head and say, 

 while doing so: "My grandfather bade me to say, when I do this 

 act, ' I remove this symbol from my head and wipe my hands upon 

 the bodies of the enemy.' 



"In time you will hear that the warrior has started on his journey. 

 Then you are to remember liim. On the following morning, as the 

 sim begins to rise, paint the parting of yom* hair red, put a narrow 

 blue line upright on your right cheek, one horizontally on your fore- 

 head, and one on your left cheek like that on the right. Tliis is the 

 Wa-zhi"' The-the Ki'-no", the symbolic painting by which you send 

 to the warrior sympathy and courage, and your wish for his success. 

 You must remove these symbols from your head and face before the 

 Sim reaches the zenith and say, while you do so: 'My grandfather 

 bade me to say, when I do this, "I remove these symbols from my 

 head and face and wipe my hands upon the body of the cliief of the 

 enemy.'" On the next day, as the sun rises, you will again paint 

 yourself in the same manner, but add a red line to each of the blue 

 ones on your face. Before the sun reaches the zenith you must 

 remove the symbols, and as you do so repeat the words I have just 

 given you. On the third morning you will repeat this ceremony, 

 this time adding a blue line to the red and blue lines, and later remove 

 them as you did the others. On the fourth morning you must per- 

 form the same ceremony, adding to the three lines on your face a 

 red line, and later remove them in the same manner as before." 



The A'-ki-ho" Xo'-ka continues his instructions as to the woman's 

 next act. 



VIGIL TO SEND COURAGE. 



"Before the sun rises on the fifth morning you must arise and go 



out of your house and take from the earth a bit of soil and put it on 



your head. This is the Rite of the Wa-zhi°' The-the No°'-zhi°-zho° 



(the Rite of Vigil and the Sending of Courage). You must give all 



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