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Then after they all had eaten (their things up), the leading attend- 
ant went around handing loose fine earth to those who had eaten. 
They wiped their hands with this. 
Tt is said that they then gathered up the bones. They poured 
what was left out by the fire. They acted quietly. They did not 
go around talking. They were wished by those celebrating the gens 
festival to think about the manitou. 
Those that ate, ate carefully so they might not drop anything from 
their mouths. 
The attendants also ate. They stood up. They stood up eating. 
They did not use spoons. It is said that was another thing those 
attendants did when they ate. They stood around while cating. 
If any (ceremonial attendant), it is said, did sit down while eating 
he was considered a berdache. It is said that was the reason why 
the ceremonial attendants always stood up while eating. They 
always ate by the fire, it is said. They stood facing the fire. 
It is said that some thought it hard to act as ceremonial attendants. 
That was the reason why they thought it hard, because the ceremo- 
nial attendants stood up while eating. Yet the ceremonial attend- 
ants ate whenever (they wished to eat). Also they ate whatever they 
wanted to eat. Those who thought in their hearts, “I am going to 
eat meat food,” ate meat. 
To be certain, those celebrating the gens festival would say this to 
their leading ceremonial attendant: “You may notify your fellow 
ceremonial attendants that they can eat. They can eat whatever 
they wish to eat,” it is said the leading ceremonial attendant would be 
told. He then, it is said, told his ceremonial attendants that they 
might eat. 
From then on, it is said, the attendants would eat whenever they 
wished. After eating they would go and wipe their fingers on manitou 
skins that were in the White Buffalo Hoof sacred pack. Indeed they 
would speak to that sacred pack, that it might bless them. They 
would tell of themselves that they were not wicked, that the White 
Buffalo Hoof sacred pack might look upon them as leading quiet lives. 
It is said that is the way the ceremonial attendants did. 
Again, it is said, that they did not dress up in gay attire at all. 
They wore only a breechcloth. And they were naked. It is said 
that was the way they were dressed. It is said that they were bare- 
footed. 
Also it was not allowed for any one to touch their hair. Especially 
the attendants were not to touch their hair at all. Indeed that was 
said to be very much against the rules of religion for them to do that, 
while they were handling anything’the people were to eat. Indeed it 
was emphatically not allowed for them to touch their hair. 
