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finger to the ground, and then placed it five times on the 

 other woman's joined palms, in four spots forming a circle, and 

 then in the middle. The course of her finger was from right 

 to left, contrary to the usual ceremonial order. Then she spit 

 a minute quantity of medicine on the same places on the 

 woman's two hands; the latter then rubbed herself all over 

 with her hands.' Cedar- Woman spit on her two cheeks, and 

 then on her own hand, which she placed on the kneeling 

 woman's breast and then on the top of her head. She also 

 took some of the medicine from her own mouth and put it 

 into the other's. The woman then rose and walked around 

 past the fire and the dishes (which occupied the centre of the 

 tent) to the door. Then she took up a dish of food that stood 

 towards the southeast (j. e., not far from the door), and, hold- 

 ing it just above the ground, walked around the fireplace 

 from left to right. Then she gave it to the woman before 

 whom it had stood. Going to the southwest quarter of the 

 tent, she took up a dish there, and, after having made a com- 

 plete circuit with it, gave it to the woman nearest whom it 

 had stood. Then she did the same at the northwest and 

 northeast. The rest of the food, other than these four dishes, 

 was not moved. The women all produced plates or kettles, 

 and the owner of the tent ladled out food to them from one 

 dish. The remaining dishes she set before Cedar-Woman. 

 Cedar- Woman took five crumbs from one of the dishes and 

 laid them on the tent-owner's palm. This woman then went 

 around the tent, laying one crumb on the ground at each of 

 the four ends or sides (southeast, etc.) of the tent. The fifth 

 she placed on the fire in the middle. Then she came back to 

 Cedar- Woman, who placed five pieces from another dish on 

 her palm. The woman then rubbed her hands together, and, 

 going around the fire, stood before a tent-pole on the south- 

 east side of the tent. She moved her hands down in front of 

 it with a motion as if she held it and were letting her hands 

 glide down along it. She went successively to the southwest, 

 northwest, and northeast of the tent, and made the same mo- 



' This is a common practice in ceremonials; a root called h&cawaanaxu is used for 

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