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of the god of day. If I also make it to be my path I shall cause 

 myself to be difficult to be overcome by death, for even the other 

 gods shall fear to stand in that path and to obstruct my way, in the 

 course of my life.' You shall also paint a short blue upright line 

 upon your cheek. Then you shall put the interior of your house in 

 order, so that it may be pleasing to look upon, and as the sun rises 

 and reaches a point midway between the horizon and midheaven you 

 shall remove from your head and face these signs, saying, as you do 

 so: 'My grandfather bids me to say that the act I now perform is 

 not without a purpose, that it means the destruction of the young 

 man who dwells toward the setting sun, the youth whose voice has 

 become broken.' 



" On the following morning you shall repeat the ceremony antl shall 

 paint beside the blue upright line a red line. Then as the sun again 

 reaches a point midway between the horizon and midheaven you 

 shall remove these mystic symbols and say, as you do so : ' My 

 grandfather bids me say that the act I now perform is not without a 

 purpose, that it means the destruction of the maiden who dwells 

 toward the setting sun, the maiden whose voice has become broken.' 



"Four successive days you shall repeat this ceremony until there 

 shall appear on your left cheek four short upright lines, two blue and 

 two red, and you shall have performed your ceremonial duty of helping 

 the warriors." 



Sho"'-ge-mo"-i" was inclined to avoid the mention of this part of the 

 fse Wa-tho° for the reason, perhaps, that there is in it too direct a 

 reference to the destruction of human life, as the office of his gens is 

 that of the protection of life and the maintenance of peace with all 

 peoples. 



Wa-xthi'-zlii gives in full the form used by liis gens, the Puma of 

 the Ho°'-ga division, when instructing the initiate's wife as to her 

 ceremonial duties in the No°'-zlii°-zho" degree. The form given by 

 him contains five sections, namely: (1) Painting for the Sending of 

 Courage ; (2) The Vigil by which the Woman Sends Corn-age ; (3) Sym- 

 bolic Face Painting, and the Kobe; (4) Symbolic Painting, and the 

 Field ; (5) Ceremonial Face Painting, and the Water Chinquapin (see 

 pp. 192-195). 



Xu-tha-wa-to^-i" gave in detail the form used by his gens, the Tsi'- 

 zhu Wa-no°, in the Ni'-ki degi-ee of the seven tribal rites. (See 36th 

 Ann. Eept. B. A. E., pp. 270-272.) 



Tse-zhi"-ga-wa-da-i°-ga, of the Tho'-xe gens, who was recognized 

 as one of the men well versed in the tribal rites, said that the buffalo 

 songs are calls to the animals which are still in the unseen world and 

 are yet to appear on the earth in visible, bodily form. Indeed, some 

 of the buffalo songs given by this man in the Shrine Degree of the tribal 



