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the water was poured out on the ground where it stood and the shell was left just where it dropped. Old Mon-shi-ta-mon-in who was to have acted as Shoka at this ceremony but did not because of his feebleness told me that this band, the Ponka Wa-shta-ge were the only band that has songs for the Ni-'Ki-e, the others had only rituals and the forms. The songs were good, musically, also the words, and I shall try to get the whole thing. This was really a ceremony mainly for the ensuring success in hunting. The Ponka Washtage people being representatives of the peaceful arts could not have a ceremony that was purely for war altho defensive warfare is connected with it and placed last. I think that on a further study of these peace clans, it will turn out that they controlled the hunt. There are, as you already, now, two