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[[top right of page number "80"]] cleansed of the old ashes, wood | [[top right of page number "80"]] cleansed of the old ashes, wood &c, - new fires were lighted throughout the country and a sacrifice was made in each one of them from the first meat killed afterwards by those to whom they respectively belonged. The second great Festival, - being sah, loo, stu, knec, - keeh, steh, steeh, - that is, - the preliminary, or New Green Corn (maize) Feast, - (held when the young corn first become fit to taste), - was introduced by the following preparations: - Instructions having been duly given by the [[blank space]], through his seven prime counsellors, so to regulate the planting throughout the country as to secure a simultaneous growth, - and a proper watch having been kept in the interim over the fields, - no sooner was the young corn (maize) discovered to be fit for use, than the messenger was despatched far and wide to convene the entire nation. The messenger gathers upon his way seven ears of corn, - one from a field of each of the seven clans. Returning, he delivers the seven ears of corn to the seven prime counsellors. They now make the necessary arrangements for the feast. They send all the hunters of the metropolitan | ||
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top right of page number "80" cleansed of the old ashes, wood &c, - new fires were lighted throughout the country and a sacrifice was made in each one of them from the first meat killed afterwards by those to whom they respectively belonged. The second great Festival, - being sah, loo, stu, knec, - keeh, steh, steeh, - that is, - the preliminary, or New Green Corn (maize) Feast, - (held when the young corn first become fit to taste), - was introduced by the following preparations: - Instructions having been duly given by the blank space, through his seven prime counsellors, so to regulate the planting throughout the country as to secure a simultaneous growth, - and a proper watch having been kept in the interim over the fields, - no sooner was the young corn (maize) discovered to be fit for use, than the messenger was despatched far and wide to convene the entire nation. The messenger gathers upon his way seven ears of corn, - one from a field of each of the seven clans. Returning, he delivers the seven ears of corn to the seven prime counsellors. They now make the necessary arrangements for the feast. They send all the hunters of the metropolitan