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fices in, and two round flat stones, each about four inches in diameter. 
The upper surfaces of these he painted, one blue and one black, and he 
bordered each with a stripe of red. When the kethawns and cigarettes 
were ready, the qacali distributed them along with the bunches of 
plumes, on the five pieces of cotton cloth, which were then rolled up 
around their contents, making five bundles of sacrifices. On the com- 
pletion of this work there was prayer, song, and rattling; the medicinal 
powder was applied to the body of the patient as before (paragraph 
85); two of the little sacrificial bundles were placed in her right hand, 
and while she held them she again repeated a prayer, following again 
phrase by phrase, or sentence by sentence, the words of the priest. 
The latter, when the prayer was ended, took the sacrifices from her 
hand and pressed them to different parts of her body in the order pre- 
viously observed, beginning with the soles of the feet and going up- 
wards to the head, but on this occasion touching also the back, and 
touching it last. Each time after pressing the sacrifices to her body he 
held them up to the smoke hole and blew on them in that direction a 
quick puff, as if blowing away some evil influence which the sacrifices 
were supposed to draw from her body. Then the three remaining bun- 
dles were put in her hands and the rites observed with the former bun- 
dles were repeated in every respect, including the prayer, which was 
followed by singing and rattling. When the song had ceased some of 
the assistants took the bundles of sacrifices out of the lodge, no doubt 
to bury them according to the method proper for those particular 
kethawns. The round painted stones were also carried out. 
88. The prayers which the woman repeated varied but little. They 
all sounded nearly alike. The night the shaman arrived he rehearsed 
some of these prayers with the woman, at her own hogan, to make her 
familiar with them before she repeated them in the medicine lodge. The 
prayer addressed to Dsilyi‘ Neyani, when she held in her hand the 
offering sacred to him, was as follows: 
Reared Within the Mountains! 
Lord of the Mountains! 
Young Man! 
Chieftain! 
I have made your sacrifice. 
I have prepared a smoke for you. 
My feet restore thou for me. 
My legs restore thou for me. 
My body restore thou for me. 
My mind restore thou for me. 
My voice restore thou for me. 
Restore all for me in beauty. 
Make beautiful all that is-before me, 
Make beautiful all that is behind me. 
Make beautiful my words. 
Tt is done in beauty. 
It is done in beauty. 
It is done in beauty. 
It is done in beauty. (Paragraphs 261-4.) 
