They hop on one foot and then on the other, keeping time to the drum, and making indescribable gestures, each having a small whistle in his mouth, with his face turned towards the sun.

The singing and other music is performed by the medicine men.

The drum used is a raw hide stretched over a keg, on which a regular beating of time is made with a short stick with a head to it.

Women pretend to foretell future events, and, for this reason, are sometimes invited to medicine feasts.
II.
INDIAN DOCTORS.
When an Indian is sick and wants "the Doctor" as we say, or a medicine man, as they say,--they call them also priests, doctors and jugglers,--a messenger is sent for one, with a pipe filled in one hand, and payment in the other; which fee may be a gun, blanket, kettle or anything in the way of present.

The messenger enters the wigwam (or teepee, as the houses of the Sioux are called) of the juggler, presents the pipe, and lays the present or fee beside him.