Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . -. The ashes are thrown firstto the East, then to the North, West, South, Zenith, and Nadir, forphysical ])urification of those present. After repeating the throwingof ashes to the six regions by striking the plumes, they dip them in a Though white-haired and aged, she is considered the most efficient female theurgist in ztr LJ < tr LU <o UJ < z z< I UJ tr LU I < UJ q:C5 z< ?< STEVliSMON] 493 tlie medicine bowl iiiid spiiril<le all present. The two wlio carry outt
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . -. The ashes are thrown firstto the East, then to the North, West, South, Zenith, and Nadir, forphysical ])urification of those present. After repeating the throwingof ashes to the six regions by striking the plumes, they dip them in a Though white-haired and aged, she is considered the most efficient female theurgist in ztr LJ < tr LU <o UJ < z z< I UJ tr LU I < UJ q:C5 z< ?< STEVliSMON] 493 tlie medicine bowl iiiid spiiril<le all present. The two wlio carry outthe food from before the altar return, and the three novices beg^in todance, keeping in line before their .seats, facing first the east, and thenthe west. Tiiev dance until the close of the practicing of the medi-cine, which consumes an hour. The child of 4 years is one of the mostenergetic and the best dancer in the line. As soon as the three danceisarc on the tloor. two other men leave the choir and, skipping and hop-ping about, gesticulate tieast-like before the altar, and verj soon theirbodies become the abiding places of the Beast Gods and they l)eginpracticing upon the patients. A woman deposits a large bowl southof the center of the room beside an aged woman who sits on the the healing the theurgists throw themselves prostrateon the floor and suck at the parts of the bodies of the
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