ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE X. Medicine lodge, viewed from the south 418

XI. Medicine lodge, viewed from the east 420

XII. Dance of nahikàï 432

XIII. Fire dance 442

XIV. The dark circle of branches at sunrise 444

XV. First dry painting 446

XVI. Second dry painting 448

XVII. Third dry painting 450

XVIII. Fourth dry painting 452

FIGURE 50. Qastcèëlçi, from a dry painting of the klèdji-qaçàl 397

51. The çobolçà, or plumed wands, as seen from the door

of the medicine lodge 422

52. Akáninili ready for the journey 424

53. The great wood pile 429

54. Dancer holding up the great plumed arrow 434

55. Dancer "swallowing" the great plumed arrow 434

56. The whizzer, or groaning stick 436

57. Yucca baccata 440

58. Sacrificial sticks (keçàn) 452

59. The talking kethàwn (keçàn-yalçì`) 452

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