THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FIVE NATIONS 



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PiCTOGRAPHS ON RECORD StAFF 



(i) The seven parallel lines represent the four elder brothers and the 

 three younger brothers of the eight clans who are mourning. (2) The 

 prostrate figure is that of the dead chief of the eighth clan. (.-^) A chanter 

 of condolence appears to comfort the sorrowing friends and relatives, 

 (4) he lifts one hand to say, " we are mourning," (5) then both arms are 

 raised to the heavens and he asks the people to look to the sun and be 

 gladdened, and (6) then he points to the earth where sorrow shall be buried. 

 (7) " Behold the sun in its brightness shining (8) for there sits the new 

 chief (royaneh) on a bench with four legs, like the roots of the great tree." 

 (9) Now the chief is in a bower of pine boughs where his enemies cannot 

 discover him, there he sits and thinks of his duties. (10) Night covers him 

 and he still meditates, (11) but the morning sun comes again like a circle 

 of horns over his head and he approaches like the new sun. It shines over 

 the new chief and (12) it shines over the grave of the chief who died. 



(13) Then shall the clans come in council and the new chief appears before 

 them on a new mat, but the path is not yet clear or straight, until thie 



(14) mourning clans arise and take their minds from (15) the dead chief 

 whose spirit has gone after ten days from his body. Then (16) the new 

 chief takes his staff and (17) goes forward with his sun before him, as a light 

 to his mind and that people may see he is royaneh. Then (18) is his 

 4oor open and his path made dear. 



