Scribner's magazine . n pour le funkeralfestin, un homme est sorti dans l'après-midi et a coupé deux branches qu'il tiedensemble dans le shae2:>e d'une croix. Thiswas élevé à l'endroit où se déroulent les dancewas ; alors qu'un petit perross que liad y était debout, comme on l'a coutume, gaspillé environ cinquante yardsde la maison où le garçon était mort, andeast de sa bière placédsome dans un pot et quelques cigarettes. Allnight un feu a été le démarrage pour que la personne décédée mightdance, boire, et s'échauffer à sametime comme les autres.Environ une heure beprémunset, un blanc il-goatwas apporté et de la gorge

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Scribner's magazine . n for the funeralfeast, a man went out in the afternoonand cut two branches which he tiedtogether in the sha2:>e of a cross. Thiswas raised at the spot where the dancewas to take place ; while a smallercross which liad been standing there, as the custom is, wastaken about fifty yardsfrom the house wherethe boy had died, andeast of it were placedsome beer in a jar andsome cigarettes. Allnight a fire was keptup in order that thedead person mightdance, drink, and warmhimself at the sametime as the others.About one hour beforesunset, a white he-goatwas brought and itsthroat cut. An old hagcaught the blood in abowl and with a spoonthrew some of it in theair, first toward thewest, then toward theeast, north, and south.A white sheep was thenbrought and killed, andthis time the head ofthe house perfonned asimilar ceremony withthe blood. Then ablack wether was killed, but its blood was notTu T u M , ^r.A r.f thrown up. The meat The Tarahuman Method ot , 1 Wearing Blanket. of the auimals WaS put. in a pot to boil, without salt, and thebones were afterward taken out, for thegod does not like bones. The sacnfice with blood is, howeyer, not so important as the sacrifice withbeer, and this beer sacrifice, whichnow followed, and is considered as thereal beginning of the festiyal, is per-formed by the master of the house, who fills a big gourd with natiye beer, teswaino, and standing before the cross, facing the east, throws a dipperful ofit into the air. He then walks aroundthe cross and throws another dij^periulto the west ; after which he repeats theceremony on the other sides of thecross. This is gone through eyerytime a fresh jar of teswaino is ojjened.Women are busy pre^^aring for thefeast corn - cakes and tamales, maizeci-ushed wrap23ed in leayes and boiled.The son of the house, pointing to thestars, told me that the dance would be-gin when the Pleiades reached a placein the heayens which I estimated wouldbe at about eleyen oclock. When the dancing began, tw

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