THE CAMP DWELLERS. 1/0 
reservation. The two bands, the Llanero and the Ollero, 
pitch their tipis on opposite sides. On the day pre- 
ceding the public festival, the young men of each band 
accompanied by the older men go some distance from 
the camp and hold a preliminary race by which those 
who are to run in the final race are chosen. ‘Two 
booths are constructed, one at either end of the race 
course. From these the two bands issue in irregular 
bunches surrounding a drum. The dancers have 
cottonwood branches in their hands and are led by a 
man carrying a standard from which flies a cotton cloth 
and on the top of which are two ears of corn. The 
two bands of dancers approach each other and pass, 
each going to the goal of the other. During the night 
and the early morning, ceremonies are held in the 
booths, a sand painting is made, the racers are painted, 
and prayers are said for them by priests. About noon 
the relay race takes place, practically under the same 
conditions and in the same manner as has already been 
described for Taos. 
The Jicarilla have a healing ceremony held at the 
request of someone who is ill. A large place is en- 
closed by a brush fence. At one end of this a tipi is 
fixed or a booth is made. Within this a sand painting 
is drawn representing many animals. A buffalo skin 
is stretched over a pit and beaten like a drum, the 
moccasins of the patient being used for drumsticks. 
The shoulder blade of a deer or antelope is rubbed over 
a notched stick producing considerable noise. Rattles 
are also used as an accompaniment to loud singing. 
This singing and noise are intended to scare away the 
evil influence which has resulted from the patient’s 
having crossed the tracks of a bear or rattlesnake. 
Within the brush enclosure a dance is held at night. 
Men painted in two styles and decorated with fir 
