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Hominy, OK.
Jan. 3, 1917

My dear M,
Last evening we returned to Hominy late from Wa-xthi-ghis camp. There was only a few at the meeting. Monday was a rainy muddy day so the men and women who usually attend did not come. Fred Lookout [[...]] Pawhuska in an automobile. He said he would not have come but he wanted to see me. He was very cordial and he sat with me at the dinner yesterday, after the meeting was over.

I did not attend the meeting in the night as I feared the draughts. It was rather an uncomfortable night as it was. In the morning at 9 oclock I went to the meeting. They put me through the ceremony of brushing my sins into the sacred fire. They then gave me a place near the man, my host, who who was conducting the ceremonies. All seemed pleased to have me there and at the times when there was a pause some of the symbolisms were explained to me. The heart upon which the sacred fire was kept burning represented