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about fifteen feet from this centre, a hedge made of boughs similar to those of the arbor & about four feet high enclosed the sacred ground. Four arches of branches unclear/xxed the entrance to the circle & four saplings with thunder birds at their summits similar to the centre one but smaller were erected at the side of each gate -- This arrangement was quite picturesque & resembled the arbors & hedges of an ornamental garden walk. The ceremonies commenced by the medicine man issuing from his face painted black & long grass interwoven with his hair, his lodge near by, with rattle & flute & ensconcing himself in