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recounts the finding of four different kinds of rock in their consecra- 

 tion for syniboHc purposes. The seventh, a single section, speaks of 

 the finding of a female buffalo, the consecration of parts of its body 



Fig. 72. — Wa-tse-mo"-i". Member of the Black Bear Gens. 



and skin for ceremonial puri)oscs. The eighth group of three sec- 

 tions recounts the search for a suitable kind of stone out of which 

 to make a ceremonial knife. ( )n his third search the man chosen for 



