The drummers begin the next period in the dance by beating their tomtoms. As soon as they commence the _gáŭn_ again appear, coming from the east as before, and stop in single file in front of the cedar tree on the eastern side. There the spectators throw _hádĭntĭn_ upon them and offer prayers, after which the five _gáŭn_ take the same positions as before in front of the small trees. Upon the trees little wheels of cedar twigs have been hung; these the dancers now take, and each dances toward the fire in the centre of the circle and back four times. As the gods dance back and forth the people assembled in the encircling line shift their positions, so that all the women are on the north side and all the men on the south; then the entire body dances, with brief intervals of rest, while twelve songs are sung. The maskers next form in single file on the east, march around the fire, through the flames of which each passes the ends of his two sacred wands to destroy any lurking evil, then back around the eastern cedar tree, again around the fire, then to the southern tree, and so on to each of the four trees, when they take their leave. This much constitutes that part of the ceremony in which the _gáŭn_ are the chief participants and which usually occupies half the night. The remainder of the night is consumed by the performance of some ceremony forming the principal objective—often the puberty rite above described. [Illustration: Apache Maiden] Apache Maiden _From Copyright Photograph 1906 by E.S. Curtis_ THE JICARILLAS [Illustration: Lone Tree Lodge - Jicarilla] Lone Tree Lodge - Jicarilla _From Copyright Photograph 1904 by E.S. Curtis_ HOME AND GENERAL CUSTOMS