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264 in the Sun Dance and the "PohkHong." The Sun dance is still occasionally practiced a Yankton Dakota who had been educated joined in the dance a few years since and taking up pinches of his flesh cut them off. and he so mutilated his body that he died in ten days afterward. Before entering upon that dance the indian aspirant for the rank of brave. makes a long fast lasting four or five days. He then went to the medecine [sic] chief who had charge of the ceremony. When the circumstances permitted a large structure was set up in which to hold the ceremony. and in this the Medecine chief the candidates and the crowd assembled. The trial of endurance consisted in the following ceremony.