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medicine water and sprinkled the painting, beginning at the south side. 
Zaadoltjaii gave the invalid a draft from the gourd, and waving the 
gourd from left to right formed a circle amidst the wildest cries. He 
gave three more drafts to the invalid, each time waving the gourd 
around the invalid with a wave toward the east. He then placed the 
palm of his hand over the feet of all the figures, beginning with the 
figure at the south end, west side; running up that line he began with 
the figure on the north end east side, running down that line; he then 
placed his hands to the soles of the feet of the invalid, hooting twice; 
then the heart of the invalid was touched in the same manner with the 
palm of the right hand, the left hand being placed to his back. The 
body was pressed in this way four times amid loud cries. This was 
repeated upon the invalid. After touching each figure of the painting, 
the right hand was placed to the forehead of the invalid and the left 
hand to the back of the head, and the head pressed in this way on all 
sides. The song-priest put live coals before the invalid and upon them 
sprinkled tobacco and water, the fumes of which the invalid inhaled. 
An attendant then threw the coals out of the fire opening, and the 
song-priest gathered the twelve turkey wands from around the painting 
while the inmates of the lodge hastened forward to press their hands 
upon what remained of the figures, then drawing a breath from their 
hands, they pressed them upon their bodies that they might be cured 
of any infirmities, moral or physical, after which four men gathered at 
the points of the compass and swept the sand to the center of the paint- 
ing, and placing it in a blanket deposited it a short distance from the 
lodge. 
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FIRST CEREMONY. 
The final decoration of masks with ribbons, plumes, ete., began at sun- 
rise and consumed most of the morning. About noon two sticks 1 
inch in diameter and 6 inches long were colored; one, of pifion, was 
painted black, the other, of cedar, was colored red. Three medicine 
tubes were made, one black, one red, and one blue. These were placed 
in a basket half filled with meal; the basket stood in the niche behind 
the song-priest. Two men personated Naiyenesgony and Tobaidischinni. 
Naiyenesgony’s body was painted black (from the embers of a burnt 
weed of which specimens were procured) and on the outside of his legs 
below the knee, on the upper arms, breast and scapula were bows in 
white but without arrows. Tobaidischinni had his body painted with 
the scalp knot in white in relative positions to the bows on Naiyenesgony. 
A third man, personating the turquois hermaphrodite Ahsonnutli, wore 
the usual squaw’s dress with a blanket fastened over the shoulders 
reaching to the ground. Her mask was blue. The three left the lodge 
earrying their masks in their hands. Passing some distance down the 
avenue to the east they put on their masks and returned to the lodge. 
