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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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Tl\e color of the animal spirits beinj]: yellow explains the expression: 

 "It is tlie very thing you two adorn yoursolvcs with." Tho bilo is 

 supposed to have become stagnant, and these animals are expected 

 to effect a cure by wallowing in it and thus stirring it up. It is with 

 the same object in view that the medicine man rubs the stomach of 

 the patient, viz, to scatter the "clotted " bile. (See p. G2.) 



The symptoms of the disease are a vomiting of bile and a throbbing 

 and soreness about the navel, so that the slightest touch is painful; 

 [the umbilic region] also becomes much swollen. Wliile the disease 

 is believed to be primarily the work of revengeful annual ghosts, the 

 doctor from whom the formula was obtained said that the imtucdiate 

 cause was that the gall (a't'a'cS") sometimes [by the native medicine 

 men] confounded with the bile (Dalo'ni), gets into the veins and 

 collects under the navel (!) He claimed this as an original discoveiy 

 and prided himself upon it accordingly. 



No medicine is used, the medicine man simply rubbing the sore 

 spot with his hands previously warmed over the fire as described 

 on page 62. The medicine man recites the formula in a whisper, 

 while rubbing bis hands together over the fire. Then laying them 

 flat upon the seat of pain, he draws them slowly down over the place, 

 blowing upon the spot once at the end. This operation is repeated 

 four times at each application, and four applications complete the 

 treatment, the first being about sunrise and tho last just before noou, 

 as already explained. In this and most other forms of ])alo*ni the 

 tsi;'Gi*tsuy5"/sti fish (Horny Head) is tabooed on account of its 

 tendenc}'^ to rai)id decay. " 



Both the medicine man and his assistant, but not tho patient, 

 abstain from food until after the fourth application. 



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u*^ndi'y9"'Dali a'Da'n^'wo'tT Wit 



their navel to cure any one with this 



SG€ ' I 



Now then 



'iDa-^"WeH' I 



thou wizard 



DO-'t'a^"le'*9'13a' 



thou hast arisen, 

 facing us 



^ tsuDo"no!i' 



thou hast said 



Dirna'outl9'' 



where thoy cling 

 to oacli other 



*a'-no*Gwo" 



hal Now 



9*Dal-€-'GW0' 



lake, big 



V-GO*i;'sti 

 ha, something 



• n' 



*at'9i]a''ni*Ga' tsf\ya' Gf'oa-Ge 

 thou hast come to listen Otter blood-ish 



Dt'tsotlt'o'*tsti' I *a-'no-Gwo''' 



thou art staying lia, now 



a'GWADe-'htc*e*ti^ niGe'^s^'na' | 

 it escapes from my (sight) nevw 



I ng* no-a 



trail(B), Loc 



*iGe*^stwi'st'anfGa' 



thou hast come to (push it) 



with tlie crown of thy 



hoiui back to whore 



it ought to be 



t'a'DiGa'tlt'anfGa' | i^1sG€*'d9 



thou hast come to it important 



push it away 



DO"'Datsana*'"waDi' 



they Ho for thee stretched out 



as thou comest hither 



I u-lsGe*'DO 



it important 



U*1sG€*'D9 

 it important 



DMDo^'nOci' 



he has said it 



y'wO'Gt'tH 

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as high us— T L 



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