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pieces of cloth, not, however, until a bit of pollen had been sprinkled 
on the beads which lay on the cloth. The pollen end of the tabe pointed 
to the east. The four bunches of feathers were then laid on the tubes. 
The song-priest rolled up each cloth and holding the four parcels 
with both hands he placed them horizontally across the soles of the 
feet, knees, palms, breast, back, shoulders, head, and across the mouth 
of the invalid, and the invalid drew a breath as the parcel touched his 
lips. Tle sat to the north of the rug facing east. The sick man then 
received the parcels from the song-priest and held them so that the ends 
projected from between the thumbs and forefingers, and repeated a 
prayer after the theurgist, who sat facing the invalid. The prayer ran 
thus: d 
People of the mountains and rocks, T hear you wish to be paid. I give to you food 
of corn pollen and humming-bird feathers, and LT send to you precious stones and 
tobacco which you must smoke; it has been lighted by the sun’s rays and for this I 
beg you to give me a good dance; be with me. Earth, I beg you to give me a good 
dance, and I offer to you food of hiumming-birds’ plumes and precious stones, and 
tobacco to smoke lighted by the sun’s rays, to pay for using you for the dance; 
make a good solid ground for me, that the gods who come to see the dance may be 
pleased at the ground their people dance upon; make my people healthy and strong 
of mind and body. 
The prayer being offered, the parcels were given by the theurgist to 
an attendant, who deposited them in line three feet apart along the side 
of the dancing ground in front of the lodge. Their proper place is im- 
mediately on the ground that is to be danced upon, but to prevent them 
from being trampled on they are laid to one side. The black tubes are 
offerings to the gods and the blue to the goddesses of the mountains 
and to the earth. 
THIRD DAY. 
FIRST CEREMONY. 
The construction of the second sweat house began at sunrise and was 
completed at nine o'clock. Several large rocks were heated and placed 
in the sweat house and as before white sage and Bigelovia Douglasii 
were thrown in, the fumes of which were designed as medicine for the 
sick man. After the invalid entered the sweat house, buckskin blan- 
kets, ete., were drawn over the entrance. The song-priest, accompanied 
by two attendants, sat a little to the south. He sprinkled meal around 
the west base of the house and over the top from north to south and 
placed the wands around its base in the manner heretofore described 
(the twelve wands and medicine used were the special property of the 
theurgist). The song-priest holding the rattle joined the choir in a 
chant. To his right were two Navajo jugs filled with water and an 
Apache basket partly filled with corn meal. A bunch of buckskin 
bags, one of the small blue medicine tubes, a mountain sheep’s horn, 
and a piece of undressed hide lay on the meal. Near by was a gourd 
half tilled with water in which meal was sprinkled; near this was a 
