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Br. Nuthawe. When making the new fire, dry rotten wood, having nourishment was placed on the clean hearth in a ((unclear)) and seven strings, of white heads, for the seven clans, placed round it thus each pointing to the wood. Fire made by rubbing was kindled in this wood. Then this fire & wood was all taken from the hearth & put away to kindle the fire for baking the herbs. The buck, doe & ((unclear)) skins, were spread out, the flesh ((unclear)) & the heads toward the East. Fresh blood from a deer, or ((unclear)) was sprinkled or (unclear)) on the skins from the tail to the head, by means of grass or little weeds slipped in the blood on this streak of blood, on the buck skin, about the middle, was placed this diamond and also the seven strings of beads. If it was to be sickly a smoke without fire would appear in the stone; but if not, there would be a bright dazzling appearance without smoke. The priest, for one clan, took the string of beads representing that clan, and wet it with his spittle, and then held it in his hand, considering it an active agent, to inform him by certain motions, whether that clan was to be sickly or not. And this for each clan.

• H ((unclear)) Cedar, White pine, Hemlock, Mistletoe, evergreen briar, (I,e, nu ku,lo ku mi tu) Heart leaf & ginseng root (as this lives over winter)