The husband does not work for three days, because he thinks his axe would break, or the horns of his ox would fall off, or he would break a leg.

The third day he takes a bath.
When the baby is three days old the shaman comes to cure it.

A big fire is made of corn-cobs, the little one is placed on a blanket, and with the father's assistance the shaman carries it, if it is a boy, three times through the smoke to the four cardinal points, making the ceremonial circuit and finally raising it upward.

This is done that the child may grow well and be successful in life, that is, in raising corn.

Then the shaman takes a burning corn-cob from the fire and with the charred end makes three parallel lines lengthwise over the child's head and three across them.