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meal the men formed into groups and prepared plume offerings, which 

 are quite different from those made by other fraternities, spears of 

 grass being combined with the plumes. Figure 29 shows the method 

 of combining plumes and grass. As there was to be an initiation, a 

 parallelogram was outlined in white meal on the floor near the altar. 



Fig. 29— Method of combining plumes and grass. 



and was afterward filled in with the meal. A line of black inclosed 

 the whole, and segments of circles, symbolic of rain clouds, were 

 formed in black upon the white ground. The black coloring is made 

 from charred corncobs. A l)lack line was run transversely across the 

 parallelogram. Two figures were delineated also in black on the 



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