For four days and nights they lie here (occasionally going away for food), while the old women of the tribe dance and sing round the pit constantly.

At times the old women throw silver coins among the crowd to teach the girls to be generous.

They also give away cloth and wheat, to teach them to be kind to the old and needy; and they sow wild seeds broadcast over the girls to cause them to be prolific.

Finally, all strangers are ordered away, garlands are placed on the girls' heads, and they are led to a hillside and shown the large and sacred stone, symbolical of the female organs of generation and resembling them, which is said to protect women.

Then grain is thrown over all present, and the ceremony is over.
The Thlinkeet Eskimo women were long noted for their fine qualities.