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Black & buff & white were favorite body colors brightened up by face paint of diamond dyes & bright neckerchiefs or head dress of feathers. All ran barefooted. After the race they danced again & at 2 P.M. disbanded for lunch. During the last dance bread & apples were showered over the dancers by the squaws from horseback.

The squaws, gorgeously dressed, [[strikethrough]] were  [[/strikethrough]] well mounted & fairly good riders were a spectacular feature of the day. The small children were usually held with a shawl on the front or back end of the saddle or sometimes on both ends.

Some little races & dances took up the afternoon & the big Medicine Dance was prepared for.

The Medicine dance was to begin in the evening but did not really begin till 11:30. It lasted till 3 P.M. or nearly daylight. It was in the big corral like circle surrounding the Medicine teepee.

This circle, 100 feet across, was made of nut pine boughs set