This is an ancient rite (maⁿkácutzi waci) far antedating the modern peyote eating practice but on the same principle. The society was founded by a faster who dreamed that he received it from the deer, for red beans (mescal) are sometimes found in deer’s stomachs.[9] There are four assistant leaders, besides the leader, and it is their duty to strike the drum and sing during ceremonies. In this society members were obliged to purchase admission from some one of the four assistant leaders. This was done in the regular ceremonial way. A candidate brought gifts and heaped them on the ground before the assistant leader and begged for the songs, etc., which he taught them and was then a leader. There was no initiation ceremony. During performances the members painted themselves white and wore a bunch of split owl-feathers on their heads. Small gourd rattles were used and the members while singing held a bow and arrow in the right hand which they waved back and forth in front of the body while they manipulated the rattle with the left. This ceremony was held in the spring when the sunflowers were in blossom on the prairie, for then nearly all the vegetable foods given by wakanda were ripe. The leader, who was the owner of a medicine and war bundle called maⁿkácutzi warúhawe connected with this society, had his men prepare by “killing” the beans[10] by placing them before the fire until they turned yellow. Then they are taken and pounded up fine[11] and made into a medicine brew. The members then danced all night, and just past midnight they commenced to drink the red bean decoction. They kept this up until about dawn when it began to work upon them so that they vomited[12] and prayed repeatedly, and were thus cleansed ceremonially, the evil having been driven from their bodies. Then a feast of the new vegetable foods[13] was given them and a prayer of thanks was made to wakanda for vegetable foods and tobacco. The connection of the maⁿkácutzi warúhawe, or red bean war bundle with the society is not altogether clear to me, save that it was a sacred object possessed by the society which brought success in war, hunting, especially for the buffalo, and in horse-racing.[14] Members of this society tied red beans around their belts when they went to war, deeming them a protection against injury.[15] Cedar berries and sagebrush were also used with this medicine.[16] Sage was boiled and used to medicate sweat baths on the war trail. Further information is afforded by Harrington,[17] who collected a typical red bean bundle figured by Skinner, indicating a Pawnee parallel to the Iowa cult: