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Feasts. Green bough dance. This has latterly been observed at different times in the year, as spring summer and autumn, though it was anciently kept, it is said, at a certain period. In this the men and women unite, two men abreast, followed by two women, then two men etc till all are arranged. The two forward men carry in their right hands, something like a hoop, with two sticks put through it crossing each other at right angles in the centre. On the ends of these sticks are fastened white feathers. Two men in the middle, and two in the rear, carry the same. All the others, men and women hold each, in the right hand, a green white pine branch or bough. The three first nights they dance till about midnight, and at the close of the dance each night, they put away their boughs till the next morning. But on the fourth night they continue their dance till near or quite morning. Previous to dancing on the three first nights, a certain man appointed for the purpose, holds a box and commences singing. Each person present then throws a piece of tobacco into the box. + On the fourth night, near the close of the dance, or near day, this man carries the box round the circle, singing is hu ni tu tu, A ni hu le ya,