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medicine-lodge, and cover the floor all over, and they sweep it out smooth early every morning. The sand is also piled up in a cone around the foot of the middle pole and a flat stone is put in the doorway (pl. xx, g, h). Whenever a dancer goes out of the lodge he sets his foot on that stone. The walls and roof are finished. the morning of the sixth day they 'herd' the buffalo. a lot of robes with the heads and hair on them and stretch them on a frame of willows so that a man can get inside of them and look like a buffalo (pl. xxiv, a; fig. 54). There are a lot of men and boys and one woman-always the same woman: that is her road [office, custom]-who go out on the prairie without weapons and have a sham fight, butting and kicking each other. After that they assemble with their robes on, the boys with colt robes on, on the plain near the lodges just like a herd of buffalo, some standing and some lying down a great many of them just like a big herd of buffalo.

"One man, well dressed, appears with a necklace, a quiver, and bow and arrows in his left hand, and a firebrand in his right (pl. XXIII, a). He goes along, all the people watching him. The buffalo out on the flat do not see him. He goes into the medicine-lodge and sits down. There are many men in there, and he sits down with them. He says: 'Look at the buffalo out there!' He talks awhile with the Taimay keeper, then goes out and runs over toward the buffalo with the firebrand in his right hand, going to their windward side; they smell the smoke and all jump up and gaze at him and run away from him, just like buffalo. The people in the village all look at them and say to each other: 'They are just like buffalo.' A man with a straight pipe (pl. XXIII, b) stoops down, with his back to the Taimay keeper, who stands in the door of the medicine-lodge (pl. xxIII, c). When the buffalo jump up he points his pipe at them and draws it back (thus drawing the buffalo). This is done four times, the keeper each time going back toward the door, until the fourth time when he goes in and stands at the west side. The buffalo are drawn in thus by him and run round outside the medicine-lodge four times. Then, entering, they run round the middle pole four times and then lie down. This man is called 'the man who brings the buffalo' (pl. XXIII, b), and the one with the lighted

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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

HERDING THE BUFFALO

a. The man who drives the buffalo. b. The man who brings the buffalo. c. The Taimay keeper.

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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

(a) MAN COVERED WITH BUFFALO-ROBE, REPRESENTING A BUFFALO. () MEDICINE LODGE

N. 8., VOL. 13, PL. XXIV

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