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especiall}' as ull must ol)serve continence at sucli times. Certain mem- 

 bers of the fraternity wished to expel the woman from the fraternity 

 and retain the man, while others desired to expel the man and retain 

 the woman. The latter faction finally declared itself a separate organ- 

 ization. The man remained with the parent fraternity while the 

 woman went with the new one. The new body, on selecting a chamber 

 for their meetings, found it to be infested with cimex, and so the 

 branch fraternity was named Pe'sha^silo'kwe (Cimex). Plate cxxvi 

 shows the altar of the Cimex fraternity before all the fetishes have 

 l)een placed. A medicine bowl is on each side of the meal line, a 

 prayer-meal basket south of the line, and a large shell on the line of 

 meal. The dry painting in the foreground shows the bears of the 

 four regions; that of the West is followed by her cub. The color 

 symbol is not adhered to, the Bear of the North being in gray instead 

 of yellow; the Bear of the West in black instead of blue-green; the 

 Bear of the South also in black instead of red, and the Bear of the 

 East in yellow instead of white, upon a ground of green, which 

 represents the vegetation of the world. The blue-green color is 

 bordered in black and white blocks, denoting the cloud houses of 

 the four regions, and the blocked circle denotes the cloud houses 

 of the world. The decoration of the bar extending above the altar 

 shows the sun blue-green, moon 3'ellow, stars white. Cougar of the 

 North yellow. Cougar of the West blue-green, Bear of the East white, 

 spotted in black. The rituals of the two organizations are the same, 

 though there are variations in their altars and dry paintings. The 

 Little Fire and Cimex fraternities alternate in the quadrennial cere- 

 monial referred to. 



CEREMONIAL OF INITIATION INTO o'NAYA'nARIA 



The four days' ceremonial here described is one of the most elabo- 

 rate of the Little Fire fraternity, and embraces about all to be found 

 in the various ceremonies, except the quadrennial. 



First <l<iy. The wall of the ceremonial chamber has been freshly 

 decorated with a blue frieze, edged with cloud symbols in black. 

 The north wall has a painting of a cougar in blue-green. The color 

 symbol is not adhered to in this instance also, as yellow is the color for 

 the North and hlue-green for the West. The morning is consumed in 

 decorating and arranging the altar and in preparing prayer plumes 

 to the Beast Gods and deceased members of the fraternity. A tiny, 

 closely covered vase said to contain blossoms and the root of the 

 te'nas'sali, combined with the hearts of butterflies and dragon-flies, 

 belonging to Nai'uchi, is deposited before the altar on the south side, 

 with the animal fetishes, etc. 



Xight ceremony. Each member of the fraternity on entering the 

 chamber is greeted by those present, and after removing his moccasins 



