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ground, and tying the canvas to it near its top, so that by- 

 raising the pole the canvas was elevated to the proper height. 

 The other women now all came out from the tent in which 

 they had been. Cedar-Woman took the pole that was lying 

 on the canvas and partially raised it four times. Then the 

 owner of the tent, unassisted, raised it altogether, put it in 

 its place, and spread the canvas around the framework of 

 poles, though without fastening it either in front, over the 

 door, or at the bottom edge; so that it sagged and hung 

 loosely. 



Cedar- Woman now took the four tails which had had em- 

 broidered pendants attached to them, and which were to be 

 fastened to the four small cir- 

 cular ornaments that were a few 

 feet above the ground on the 

 southeast, southwest, northwest, 

 and northeast sides of the tent. 

 Starting from before the door, 

 and followed by the owner of the 

 tent, she took a complex course 

 that finally brought her before 

 the northeast side of the tent, 

 where one of the tails was to be 

 attached to the beaded ornament. 

 Her course is shown in Fig. 19. 

 Altogether she walked past every part of the circumference of 

 the tent three times (excepting the distance between the place 

 where she stopped and the door from which she started); 

 crossed the tent four times from north to south or south to 

 north, lifting up the canvas once at each of the places where 

 the ornaments were, going under it, and emerging under the 

 ornament directly to the north or south ; and in all her course 

 kept turning from left to right, making five complete revolu- 

 tions. When the two women had stopped on the northeast 

 of the tent, the owner pierced the ornament with an awl, and 

 Cedar- Woman fastened the tail to it. The remaining par- 

 ticipants in the ceremony, together with several other per- 

 sons who had been watching outside, looked on from a 



Fig. ig. Diagram sliowing Cere- 

 monial Circuit around Tent. 



