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dancing songs are begun, all the men go to the war bundle and dance 

 around it. The flute is continually blown during the dancing. 

 Women may dance at their end of the lodge. The basic ritual is 

 then continued. 



When the last startmg song is finished the host rises and, ejacu- 

 latmg ho — — o, pours tobacco bito the fireplace four times. Just 

 when the food is about cooked four special songs are sung. Then 

 the Thunderbird feast takes place. All the bones that have been 

 left on the plate of the guest impersonatmg the Disease-giver are 

 taken out by the host himself, carried m an eastward direction, and 

 placed very carefully at the foot of some tree that has lieen especially 

 selected. -Tobacco and red feathers are poured upon these bones. 

 The plates used by the sa«ie person are purified wdth arbor vitte. The 

 bones left on the plates of the other guests may be thrown anywhere, 

 provided the gromid on which they are scattered has been purified. 

 Wlien the feast is over the basic ritual is contmued. When this is 

 finished the first division of the ceremony is concluded. 



Durmg the mterval between the first and second divisions the 

 attendants sweep the lodge and purify it with branches of arbor 

 vitas; and new kettles with meat are placed on the fireplaces. Then 

 the host and guests enter. The host rises and distributes the buckskiias 

 agam, and while he is domg this an attendant goes around the lodge 

 and scatters swan feathers all over it. Some are even placed on the 

 suspended kettles. The host, because he is going to suig Night 

 Spirit songs, takes down the buckskin mtended for that spu'it, 

 blackens his face with the embers of charcoal used ui markuig the 

 buckskin, and puts some swan feathers on his head. Before the host 

 starts suigmg the Night Spirit songs the pipestem is turned toward 

 the east and the origin of the songs m question is told. Then the basic 

 ritual is begmi. Wlien the dancing songs are beuig smig the guests 

 may either go to where the war bundle lies and dance there or stay 

 in their own places and dance. When the host has finished his part 

 of the basic ritual, drum, gourds, flute, and tobacco are passed to 

 the first guest, and when he is finished they are passed to the second 

 ajid third guests. After that tlie basic ritual is for the time bemg 

 discontinued and the ritual comiected with throwing out of the buck- 

 skins mtervenes, this m turn beuig followed by the Night Spirit 

 feast. However, before the feast, as the drum, gourds, ajid flute 

 are retm-ned to the host, he has a kettle ])laced on the fu-e for the 

 spirits livmg beneath the surface of the earth, and when the food in 

 it has cooked he rises and smgs paint songs {wase'). After the feast 

 is over the basic ritual is contiimed. Some time before this ritual 

 is fijiished the host takes his war bundle, wraps it up, and hangs it 

 behuid the place where he is sittmg. When finally all the songs 

 with the exception of four have been smig, the host calls upon some 

 one with a very strong voice to give the war whoop four times. This 

 the latter docs, and after the last whoop all the guests joui in. Then 

 rismg, all the guests dance out of the lodge and the ceremony is over. 



