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an Eagle. The soft feather was selected on the tail of the Bird for Tawa-Kix. Some kind of stones were cooked in ashes for the paint. All the while sweet smelling grass & weeds were being burnt to keep the lodge to smell good. Willows were brought and in shapes for whales. Hides of animals such as deer buffalo antelope were patched up to make covering for the fish. On the head was put the blue mud used in Doctor's Dances three red stripes across the head & there the feather was stuck in —

The man stayed in the lodge and the fish talked with him in dreams and told him of many wonders and gave him power over man