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27 and deposited in the treasure house, standing at the west side of the council house, a few steps from it. At the same time, also, the hunters returned, and deposited their meat, barbecued, & the skins, in the same house; and all the people assembled at the door of the council house. The next morning at day break the men strikeout appointed to cleanse the house &c. commenced their labors. They swept the house in every part, took out all the ashes and repaint the altar of earth for sacrifice. This was in the middle of the house, raised about one foot above the common earth, and rounding on the top. This they swept, and covered with new, clean earth. They then white washed anew the three white seats, and the upright planks, forming the backs to those seats, and all the other white seats and the bench standing near the altar on which the gourd for carrying water & dipping the water of purification were put. They also whitewashed those gourds and the pot in which the medicine was to be boiled. They also whitewashed the joists & posts of the house. This was done before sunrise. New fire having been made, they then kindled it on the altar, and made the fire of seven kinds of wood, and set on the white pot. They then walked round the fire four times, now and then saying u, u, and then raising a whoop. After this ceremony they took the white gourds, and went to the stream (Tarapinhead) to a spring of living water, (citation: Thomas Smith) - filled their gourds, returned, walked once round the fire, and poured the water into the pot, and again put the gourds on the white bench. They then went to the priest and told him that the pot was ready. The priest and his right hand man then went to the house back of the council house, where articles for boiling had been deposited the night before, and the right hand man took the basket, with the sacred roots &c. in it, & walked a few steps, followed by the priest, the priest then told him to stop, and he repeated to himself a certain prayer. They then proceeded, the right hand man with the basket, forward, and entered the council house, when the priest again directed his right hand man to stop, & again prayed to himself. They then proceeded to the north side of the altar, and walked round strikeout: the fire it, and then stopping, the priest sprinkled some powder of old tobacco on the fire, and taking a feather of a turkey buzzard's wing, and fanned the water strikeout: in the pot moving strikeout: it the feather four times in strikeout: some one direction over the pot.+ He then prayed again to himself. Then both walked round the fire again, & again sprinkled on the tobacco, and fanned the water in the pot, as at first; and thus four times. The priest then ordered his right hand man to put the baskets, with its contents into the pot. The right