The Gū´ksū doctor never spoke and never sang over his patients, but constantly blew a double bone whistle in a characteristic way, a very short blast followed by a very long one. Upon reaching the patient, who might be either in or out of doors, he ran around him several times. He then inserted the point of his staff under the neck of the patient and made motions four times as if prying upwards. He next inserted the staff under the shoulder and repeated this prying motion four times. He did the same at the hips, and finally at the knees. He next tapped and pressed down with his staff; first upon the forehead, then upon the chest, then upon the belly, and finally upon the knees of the patient. After this he ran rapidly out of the village and into the hills, where he stopped and turned his head toward the left four times. He then disappeared and was supposed to have returned to his supernatural abode in the south, carrying with him the ailment of the patient. While the above was the typical procedure of one of these doctors in curing a patient, he had great latitude, and might, at his own option, omit altogether certain of the above mentioned movements or use others in their places. For instance, he might pry as above, or he might press and pat the body of the patient. On the other hand, he might simply pass his staff down over the body of the patient a number of times, usually four or some multiple of four, or he might omit the use of the staff entirely and "doctor" with his whistle only, in which case he bent over or knelt beside the patient and blew his whistle over the various parts of his body, particularly those recognized by the patient as the seats of pain. FOOTNOTES: [22] U.S. Dept. of Interior, Contr. N.A. Ethn., III, 179-180, 1877. [23] _Op. cit._, p. 194. DANCES The dances either formed integral parts of the above ceremonies or, as stated, might be incidental and entirely unrelated to them. The word for dance is xe in the Eastern Pomo dialect, and ke in that of the Central and Northern Pomo. The following is a list of the Pomo dances: gīlak ke hōhō ke or hō´hōwa ke cōkin ke dūtūka ke ya´ya ke yō ke matcō ke lēhū´ye ke kalī´matōtō ke or kalī´matautau ke īwī ke gūnū´la xe he´lehela ke da´ma ke dja´ne ke kara´iya ke sawe´t ke hī´wē ke ī´dam ke xo´ke xahlū´īgak ke gū´ksū ke ma´ta ke lo´le ke mo´mīmomī ke to´to ke taūgū ke badjū´ca ke sīta´iya ke