CHAPTER VIII. 
THE HUPA, CONTINUED. 
Among the dances which they observe is the dance of friendship 
(hé-na-weh), which is an act of welcome and hospitality extended to tribes 
with whom they are on cartel. They, the Karok, the Yurok, and some 
others, recognize each other as equals, and send deputations to each other’s 
dances. Before this is to be held, two women go up on the mountain to 
the cairn on the summit which marks the boundary between them and their 
neighbors, split some fine fagots and make a fire by the cairn, which they 
keep up all day. At night deputations from the visiting tribes come up, 
and are met here by the Hupa, and all dance around the fire; then with 
torches and singing they march together down into the valley. 
The doctor dance (chilkh'-tal) is celebrated upon the initiation of a 
shaman or medicine-man into the mysteries of his art. 
Then there is the dance for luck, or the white-deer dance, in autumn, 
wherein only men participate. It is wonderful what a charm a white or 
black deer-skin possesses for these Indians, and it seems to be considered 
just as efficacious and of as happy auspice if bought from a white man as 
if killed by the Indian himself. They regard the owner of one as especially 
favored of the spirits, just as some superstitious people believe him very 
lucky who finds a four-leafed clover, or something of that sort. A chief 
whom I saw on the reservation had three which had been handed down so 
long as family heirlooms that he did not know when they were acquired. 
The possession of them had exalted him to such a pitch that no person 
crossing the river with him in a canoe could possibly be drowned, and one 
“all the same as God”! 
or two more added to the store would make him 
Whenever a white deer is killed it is skinned with the utmost care, every 
part is preserved, hoofs, ears, ete.; the head and neck are stuffed, and a 
narrow strip of red woodpecker’s down is sewed on the tips of its long pen- 
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