an opening to the east, after which the
patient dons a mask. Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti enters, followed by Haschebaad, who
carries a small spruce tree. The former puts sacred pollen in the hole
four times, each time giving his call; then Haschebaad plants the tree in
the hole and fastens its top to the patient's mask; the mask is then
pulled off the patient's head by his jerking quickly away from the tree.
This is the first night in which the ceremonies are continued until dawn.
After the unmasking, the singers take their place at one side of the back
of the hogan and begin singing to the accompaniment of a basket drum. A
youth and a maiden are required to sit in the hogan throughout the fourth
night, the ritual requiring that these be persons who have not had sexual
knowledge.

_Fifth Day_: This is the last day of the sweating, and the day on which
the first dry-painting is made. Just at dark this painting, a small one,
is begun inside. In size it would square about four feet, and is placed
close to the back of the hogan. There are three figures in the painting:
the central one being the patient, the one to the left Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti, the one
to the right Haschebaku{~COMBINING BREVE~}n. Around this painting, at all sides except the
eastern, feather wands, _ndia_, are stuck in the ground; in this case
twelve in number. Foot-tracks are made in the sand with white meal.
Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti and Haschebaku{~COMBINING BREVE~}n dress ceremonially, mask, and go out, after
which the patient enters and takes his position on the central figure of
the dry-painting, facing the east. The effort this night is to frighten
the patient and thus banish the evil spirits from his body. The two
maskers come running in, uttering weird, unearthly howls, in which every
spectator in the hogan joins, feigning great fear. The masked figures make
four entries, each like the other. In many cases the patient either
actually faints from fright or feigns to do so. The patient then leaves
the dry-painting and it is destroyed. None of the sand or other pigments
used in this painting is applied to the patient's body, as is done with
that of later paintings. The next part of the fifth night's ceremony is
the initiation of new members into the Yebichai order. No one who is not a
member of the order is allowed to enter the ceremonial hogan. At the time
of the initiation Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti and Haschebaku{~COMBINING BREVE~}n are