cine shell, applying meal to every figure and object in the painting.
Then the medicine-men all gather up portions of the sacred meal, putting
it in their medicine pouches. The patient soon enters and takes his seat
in the centre of the painting. The usual incantations are gone through,
after which the colored sands of the painting are applied to the
corresponding parts of the patient's body, then gathered up and carried
off to the north. During the day two sets of beggars go out to the
neighboring hogans. These personate Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti, Tonenili--Water Sprinkler,
the God of Water, who is really a clown--and as many Haschebaad as care to
go out. The beggars carry whips made of yucca leaves, and one who does not
respond to their appeals for gifts is whipped,--if he can be caught,--which
creates a great deal of amusement. The personators act like a company of
clowns, but at the same time they gather a large quantity of food. When
the day is thoroughly taken up with dry-painting and ceremonies, there is
less of the ceremonial at night. The medicine-men, to the accompaniment of
the basket drum, sing for a short time only on this sixth night, while
outside the late evening is spent in dancing by those who are later to
participate in the closing dance.

_Seventh Day_: This day is practically consumed with the making of another
large dry-painting. The masked men go out on another begging tour, also,
and the medicine ceremonies and the destroying of the dry-painting are
practically the same as those of the day before, while during the evening
the medicine-men sing to the accompaniment of the drum.

_Eighth Day_: The dry-painting is finished about three o'clock in the
afternoon. After its completion there is a large open-air initiation. To
become a full member of the Yebichai order one must first be initiated in
the hogan; the second initiation is a public one; the third, another
inside the hogan; the fourth, another in the open. These different
initiation ceremonies, the same in point of ritualism, may be carried over
several years.

_Ninth and Final Day_: To the average person and to the Indians as a whole
the last day is the Yebichai dance. From a distance the Indians have been
gathering during the two previous days, and the hospitality of the
patient's family, as well as that of all the people living in the
neighboring hogans, is taxed to the utmost. And from early morning until
dark the whole plain is dotted