All three wore short, black wraps with red stripes.

We recognize in one of these men, who sit with humble, downcast looks, the chief penitent, or Hotshanyi; the other two are his assistants, the shaykatze and the uishtyaka.

In their immediate neighbourhood sat three others, whose hair also was turning gray; but they sat upright and looked around with freedom and assurance.

Their dress had nothing particular or distinctive about it, but each carried on his head feathers of a certain kind.

One, with a tall, spare figure, an intelligent face, and dark complexion, wore behind each ear one blue and one yellow feather.