When they have finished feasting, the leader calls the attendants to come and get their dishes and pans. Each has a cup in which he brings coffee, and the leader puts twenty-five wampum beads in each cup for every meal. Moreover, when any one in the outside camps is hungry, he may go to an _aʹckas_ and obtain a meal for twenty-five wampum beads. The attendants have a table near the tent of one of the woman _aʹckas_, and here they eat. VALUATION OF WAMPUM For ceremonial purposes the wampum (white) is held at one cent a bead, one hundred to the dollar. Before the meeting the people give a yard or so apiece, if they are able, to show their appreciation and to be prayed for, or subscribe money for its purchase and for the other things needed at the meeting. The wampum is afterward redeemed at the same rate and is kept to use again. INDIAN COMMENTS ON THE CEREMONY Some explanations and remarks concerning the annual ceremony, as furnished by the Indians themselves, may prove of interest here. Julius Fouts (or Fox), the interpreter, remarks: “When the Delawares complete this meeting, then they claim they have worshiped everything on this earth. God gave the Powers Above authority to go around and give all the tribes some way to worship. They say these things were as if carried in a bundle, and when they come to the Delawares, last of all, there was a lot left in the bundle and they got it all—that is why the Delawares have so many different things to do in their meetings.” In explanation of the prayer word _Ho-o-o_, he said, “Did you ever hear that noise out in the woods, in the fall of the year? ‘_Ho-o-o_,’ it says. What is it? It is the noise of the wind blowing in the trees. When the Delawares pray in the Big House, they raise their voices and cry ‘_Ho-o-o_’ to God, and the Mĭsiʹngʷ‛ hears it and understands, for he is of the same nature as a tree, and there are twelve Mĭsiʹngʷ‛ carved in the Big House who will carry the prayers to the twelfth Heaven. The Indians call the Mĭsiʹngʷ‛ ‘Grandfather,’ because the trees were here before the Indians. The Big House is going out of use now, because only the old people have had gifts or visions of power to sing about. The children of today are not _piʹlsŭⁿ_, or pure; they are reared like the whites, and the Powers Above do not speak to them any more.” Chief Charley Elkhair, or Elkire, who frequently served as speaker in the Big House, said: