PROGRAM BY DAYS 230 First Day 230 Second Day 230 Third Day 230 Fourth Day 230 Fifth Day 230 Sixth Day 231 Seventh Day 231 Eighth Day 231 THE VOW 231 CEREMONY OF THE TONGUES 234 THE MEDICINE WOMAN 240 THE PROCESSION TO THE DANCING LODGE 248 The Offering of Cloth 249 THE HUNDRED-WILLOW SWEATHOUSE 250 THE DANCING LODGE 252 CUTTING THE THONGS 254 RAISING THE SUN POLE 256 THE WEATHER DANCERS 258 DANCING 260 SOCIETY DANCES 262 THE TORTURE CEREMONY 262 SUN DANCE SONGS 267 THE SUN DANCE CAMP 268 MYTHOLOGICAL NOTES 268 THE BLOOD AND NORTH BLACKFOOT 270 ILLUSTRATIONS. TEXT FIGURES. 1. The Offering of Human Flesh. Drawn from a native sketch 266 THE SUN DANCE. In our earlier paper upon the bundles of the Blackfoot, we have concerned ourselves with ceremonial functions in which the ownership and chief responsibility, in theory, rested in a single individual. We come now to an affair initiated, it is true, by the owner of the natoas bundle, but yet a composite of other rituals and functions, each of which has a definite place in a program carried out by the whole tribal organization. The only trace of a similar tribal participation is in the now almost extinct tobacco-planting ceremonies conducted by the beaver owners; but here there was no complex of other unrelated ceremonies and functions. In short, the sun dance was for the Blackfoot a true tribal festival, or demonstration of ceremonial functions, in which practically every important ritual owner and organization had a place. Nevertheless, there were certain rituals peculiar to it which gave it its character.