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Dahcotah

CHAPTER IV
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In the centre of this ring a pole is placed.

The pole is about fifteen feet in height and painted red.

From this swings a piece of birch bark, cut so as to represent thunder.

At the foot of the pole stand two boys and two girls.
The two boys represent war: they are painted red, and hold war-clubs in their hands.

The girls have their faces painted with blue clay: they represent peace.
On one side of the circle a kind of booth is erected, and about twenty feet from it a wigwam.


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