The very last fasters are dragged around in the open center of the village. The helpers are painted red on one side of the body and blue on the other side. Hoite (the speckled eagle) has taken the usual place of the okipa maker at the shrine, where he holds lone man’s pipe. Bowers, alfred w. : mandan social and ceremonial organization. Moscow, idaho, 1991. Pages 111-163. Date: 1867.
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