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of the men. The following diagram shows the position of the 
different actors: 
A, The principal 
keeper of the 
maka" or medi- 
The fire or fire- 
place is in the mid- 
dle of the lodge. 
c. Four women on 
each side. 
d. The men. e e. Two servants or 
messengers, 
Fig. 5. 
The Wacabe watci" is danced four days before going on the 
war path, in warm weather. There are about forty followers be- 
sides the leaders. They divide into two parties of equal numbers 
and dance out of doors, around the village, half going in one 
direction and half in the other. Each of the four qlets‘age car- 
ries a standard or wagqléqle ska, made of swan skin (mi™xa-ha), 
Two of these men are in each party. The he wagleqle or wacabe, 
from which the dance takes its name, is borne by the wadjipa®yi® 
or village crier, a member of the Deer gens. When they start 
on the war path the qlet s‘age go horseback, carrying their 
standards. 
The two dances after returning from war are the Watce wa- 
tci? or scalp dance, danced by the women, and the Ilucka watci”, 
danced by the men alone. 
Other Burial and Mourning Customs-——When Wm. Johnson, a 
Kansas, died, he was buried by his wife, his sister and his sister’s 
daughter. As the widow did not wish any of the tribe to go on 
the war path, she did not send for Paha*le-gaqli. So neither he 
nor the other men assembled at the house of the deceased, as in 
the case of Hosasage. 
When a man’s wife dies, the husband must put earth on his 
face at daybreak, and wander about till sunset, bewailing his loss. 
He must fast from sunrise to sunset for a year and a half. After 
sunset he washes his face. and can eat and sleep. At the end of 
the period of mourning, the widower says to his wife’s brothers, 
“ I will give you a horse, a red blanket, a white blanket, a calico 
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