Hasjelti and Hostjoghon to appear. The two men personating these gods
were behind a tree south of the sweat house, their bodies, arms, and legs
painted white. Foxskins were attached pendent to the backs of their
girdles. As the gods approached the sweat house, the patient came out and
sat upon the blanket, and Hasjelti took a mountain sheep's horn, in the
right hand and the piece of hide in the other and rubbed the sick man,
beginning with the limbs; as he rubbed down each limb, he threw his arms
toward the eastern sky and cried "yo-yo!" He also rubbed the head and
body, holding the hands on opposite sides of the body. After this rubbing,
the sick man drank from the bowl of medicine-water, then arose and bathed
himself with the same mixture, the filled gourds being handed to him four
times by Hasjelti, each time accompanied with his peculiar hoot.
Hostjoghon repeated the same ceremony over the invalid. There was a
constant din of rattle and chanting, the gods disappeared, and immediately
thereafter the theurgist gathered the twelve wands from the base of the
sweat house. He removed the blue reed from the basket and laid it a little
to the left of the priest of the sweat house, who in turn handed it to an
attendant to be deposited with the wood of the sweat house in a
neighboring tree. The invalid proceeded to the medicine lodge followed by
the song-priest uttering a low chant. After entering the lodge the invalid
took his seat on the west side; the song-priest, still standing, took from
a small buckskin bag white powdered material which he rubbed on the soles
of the feet, palms, knees, breast, shoulders, and head of the invalid;
then taking a pinch of the same material he extended his hand first toward
the east and then toward the heavens and the earth. After these attentions
he took his accustomed seat in the lodge and joined in conversation with
his attendants.

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SECOND CEREMONY.

Two sheepskins, a blanket, and cotton cloth were spread one upon the other
in front of the song-priest; and from the long reeds that had been first
rubbed with a polishing stone, then with tobacco, were cut ten pieces an
inch and a quarter long and two pieces 2 inches long. These were colored
black and blue, one long piece and five small ones being black, the others
blue. While these were being decorated the song-priest and choir sang "My
fathers, see, we are getting ready! We do our work