426 THE MOUNTAIN CHANT. 
it was done, the akaninili from the south returned. He was carefully 
divested of all his ornaments. The white paint was scraped carefully 
from his body and preserved in the medicine bags of those who scraped 
it off. Then he was led out of the lodge. 
105. When the picture was finished, the shaman, having applied pol- 
len in three places to each god, stuck around it in the ground, at regular 
intervals, the three plumed wands which had stood before the door of 
-the lodge all day and the wand which the akaninili from the south had 
just brought back with him. This wand he placed at the south of the 
picture, and laid beside it the collar, wings, and plumes which the aka- 
ninili had worn. The fifth, or north, wand was still absent with the 
courier who went to the north. 
106. All was ready now for the treatment of the sick woman. She 
was sent for, and a crier went to the door of the lodge to announce 
that song and ceremony were to begin. Accompanied by another 
woman, she entered, carrying a basket with corn meal init. This she 
sprinkled lightly over the picture and then handed it to some of the 
assistants, who finished the work she had begun by strewing the mea] 
plentifully on the figures. She sat on the form of the god in the east, 
facing the door, with her feet extended, and her companion sat on the 
figure of the cornstalk in the southeast. (Plate XVI.) In the mean 
time the medicine man had made a cold infusion in an earthen bow] and 
placed it on the hands of the rainbow figure (paragraph 169), laying over 
ita brush or sprinkler made of feathers, with a handle of colored yarn. 
When the women were seated, the chanter dipped his brush in the solu- 
tion; sprinkled the picture plentifully; touched each divine figure with 
the moistened brush in three places—brow, mouth, and chest; admin- 
istered the infusion to the women, in two alternate draughts to each; 
drained the bowl himself; and handed it to the bystanders, that they 
might finish the dregs and let none of the precious stuff go to waste. 
Next came the fumigation. The woman whom we have designated as the 
companion rose from her seat on the picture and sat on the ground be- 
side the door. The principal patient retained her seat on the eastern 
god. Near each a live coal was laid on the ground. On the coal a 
strong scented but rather fragrant mixture was thrown, and as the 
fumes arose the women waved them towards their faces and breathed 
them in as before. The coal was extinguished and carefully removed, 
as on previous occasions. The application of the sacred dust to the 
body of the patient followed. The shaman moistened his hands with 
saliva and pressed them to the feet of all the gods. Some of the pow- 
der, of course, stuck to his palms. This he applied to the feet of the 
patient. Thus he took dust from the knees, abdomens, chests, shoul- 
ders, and heads of the figures and applied it to corresponding parts of 
the patient’s form, makiug a strong massage with each application. 
107. When the patient had departed inany of the spectators advanced 
to the picture and gathered the corn pollen (paragraphs 105 and 112), now 

