MATTHEWS. ] +» CEREMONIES: GREAT WOOD PILE. 429 
115. EigHtH pay. The picture painted on Monday (October 27) 
was of a simple character, and hence did not occupy much time. The 
work was begun at 7 a.m. and was finished at 10 a.m. Of the four 
shorter or interior arrows (Plate XVIII), that which stands second 
from the north was regarded as the arrow of the east and was begun 
first. On this arrow the sick woman was placed, sitting with her face 
to the east, when she came to be treated and fumigated. The bowl of 
infusion was laid on the point of the arrow immediately to her left, 
regarded as the arrow of the north. The medicine man put the pollen 
on the base, on the red cross lines near the center, and on the white tips. 
All the ceremonies which took place between the completion and the 
obliteration of the picture (the planting of the five plumed wands, the 
sprinkling of the picture with meal, the sprinkling and administration 
of the infusion, the application of the colored dust to the person of 
the patient, the fumigation of the two women, the whistling, the sing- 
ing, and rattling) were essentially the same as those observed on the 
previous day. In taking the dust from the picture, however, the sha- 
man applied his hands only to the bases of the arrows. The ceremony 
of obliteration was also a repetition of the rites of the previous day. 
116. The building of the great stack of wood (Fig. 53) which was to 
furnish the fire in the center of the corral on the last night went on 

Fic. 53. The great wood pile. 
simultaneously with the painting of the picture. Both tasks were 
begun and ended about the same time. The wood in the big pile was 
dead, long seasoned juniper and cedar, fuel of the most inflammable 
character. The pile was about twelve feet high and sixty paces in cir- 
