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332 penciled at top of page - also 35 considering it an active agent, manifesting, by certain motions, indications of sickness or health to that clan. Thus he proceeded to enquire with the seven strands of beads. The most ancient method of divining at this seems to have been the following. The priest folded seven deer skins, and placed them on a stool, and sat his U lu sa ta on them, and prayed. Now if it was to be healthy, a bright blaze, without smoke appeared in the stone. But if the year was to be sickly, a smoky appearance would be observed in it, and just as many as were to die with the sickness appeared in the right side of it. Nutrawi The meat which had been distributed before noon, had been cooked, and was now called for by the great speaker. The fleshy pieces had been pounded and boiled by themselves, and the bony pieces also separate. Bread had been made of dry, new corn, pounded. Mush also for old people, and potatoes, beans, and all kinds of vegetables the country afforded, had been made ready, and was now brought forward and placed in due order. The priest then prayed and all, at his word, commenced eating. This was just before sunset. The priest, however, and his right hand man, and seven counsellors, and the seven women who had fasted with them the six days previous, would eat nothing this day till after dark. The priest and his right hand man would not eat till late at night. Their supper, and their only meal during twenty four house, came near bedtime. The yo wa ti ka no gi sti, or priest who sung the yowa, ate but once in twenty four hours, during the four days of the feast. His time of eating also was after dark. This priest plunged seven times at day break, and also just before eating at night. This night the people attended a religious dance till about midnight, and then such as wished might retire to rest. But according to some the whole night was kept as a vigil and improved by the women in a religious dance.