. Bulletin. Ethnology. 428 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 194 —Wolf Woman ® —West Woman ® —North Woman ® — East Woman. ® —South Woman ® — Singer for V Holy Woman Figure 7.—Plan of the last dance of the Sunset Wolf ceremony. in turn by the bundle buyer, his assistant, and the remaining fasters. A rapid pace was set; all trotted in imitation of the wolves while many of them dragged buffalo skulls. They sang the "fasting song" 100 times but at an accelerated tempo. For the fasters, this was the final dance after 4 days and nights of fasting (see fig. 7). The mound represented the p
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 428 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 194 —Wolf Woman ® —West Woman ® —North Woman ® — East Woman. ® —South Woman ® — Singer for V Holy Woman Figure 7.—Plan of the last dance of the Sunset Wolf ceremony. in turn by the bundle buyer, his assistant, and the remaining fasters. A rapid pace was set; all trotted in imitation of the wolves while many of them dragged buffalo skulls. They sang the "fasting song" 100 times but at an accelerated tempo. For the fasters, this was the final dance after 4 days and nights of fasting (see fig. 7). The mound represented the place where Hungry Wolf suffered. When a faster fell, others would stumble and fall over him. Then the dance would stop long enough for the exhausted man to recover sufficiently to get to his feet again. The bundle maker would dip sage in water and cleanse him. Seeing a son or brother fall exhausted, the relatives would return home and select a good robe, war bonnet, or other article to place on the ground near the exhausted man showing such bravery and fortitude. The Wolf Woman impersonator— running like a wolf—would pick up these articles and stack them in a pile in front of the Holy Women. Later in the day these articles were taken to the lodge where these old women met; each would take one article from the pile untU all the goods were distributed. This was their pay for participating in the ceremony. When a faster fell exhausted, the dancing stopped until he had recovered. He was then cleansed with water from the red grass bundle sprinkled on him by the bundle maker and cut free from the buffalo skulls by those "fathers" who had inserted the thongs. All the fasters were without clothing and moccasins, wearing only the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smiths
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