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distribute to the people. 4th Eve. All the people in village gather in cashim and each man takes a young woman or girl by the hand or arm & in his right hand he carries an arrow in his right hand - The boys & young men each take an old woman & do the same & thus they walk around the room & sing a song after which all go outside. - The woman taken by each man or boy is supposed to be his wife for the time. The next morning each of the men & boys who took a female the eve before goes off & gets a sled load of wood which he brings & leaves in front of his woman's home. The rods are now taken down & fire made - after cashim is warmed the rods are put back again. The men then sit around on the bench & their wives (figurative) bring them in food also each woman makes her new man a present of some article of dress or use as gloves, boots or tool bag. Women dance in eve to song & drums. The two following days in eve only songs are sung. Very early the next am all the rods & hoops are broken up & thrown in centre in fireplace and after wands thrown outside - The man & woman with their board are packed in fire wood shavings with a