were placed in position by a second attendant; and while
the tubes were being filled the song-priest and choir sang "See,
fathers! We fill these with tobacco; it is good; smoke it!" A message
was received from the fathers that they would smoke, and, puffing the
smoke from their mouths, they would invoke the watering of the earth.
They again sang "All you people who live in the rocks, all you who are
born among the clouds, we wish you to help us; we give you these
offerings that you may have food and a smoke! All women, you who live in
the rocks, you who are born among the fog, I pray you come and help us;
I want you to come and work over the sick; I offer to you food of
humming-birds' plumes, and tobacco to smoke!" Two bunches of feathers
which had been placed to the east side of the rug pointing east were
deposited in two corn husks, each husk containing bits of turquoise,
black archaic beads, and abalone shell; corn pollen was sprinkled on
these. The song-priest then placed the dual body in the husks thus:
First, the black body was laid upon the husks to the north, and upon
this a pinch of pollen was sprinkled; the blue body was placed in the
other husks and pollen sprinkled upon it; then the two right legs (black
and blue) were put into the corn husks with the black body; the two left
legs were added to the same; the right and left arms and the two heads
were placed in the husk with the blue body and corn pollen sprinkled
upon them. The husks were closed and held by the song-priest to the
soles of the feet, palms, knees, breast, shoulders, back, and top of
head of the invalid, who repeated a long prayer after the theurgist, and
the parcels were given to an attendant, who carried them some distance
from the lodge to the north and placed them in a secluded shady spot
upon the ground. Two bits of tobacco were laid upon the ground and upon
these the body was placed, the figure in a recumbent position with the
arms over the head. The invalid for whom this ceremony was held spared
no expense in having the theurgist make the most elaborate explanation
to his near relatives of the secrets of the medicine tubes.

[Illustration: Plate CXV. CEREMONIAL MASKS.]

THIRD CEREMONY.

The theurgist occupied his usual seat, surrounded by his corps of
attendants. The man personating Naiyenesgony had his body and limbs
painted black. The legs below the knee, the scapula, the breasts, and
the arm above the elbow were painted white. H