2. To send out invitation-sticks and tobacco to the leaders of the other four bands. The messengers are always his sisters’ sons.
3. To begin the Four Nights’ Ceremony preceding the ceremony proper.
4. To receive the leaders and assistants of the other four bands before the sweat-lodge ritual, and to begin the same.
5. To begin the ceremony proper.
6. To take part in the following portion of the ceremony proper.
(a) To welcome the four bands.
(b) To lead the candidate to the secret brush and instruct him in certain precepts.
(c) To act as preceptor of the candidate before he is shot with the sacred shell.
(d) To turn the candidate over to the charge of the leaders of the East and North Bands.
(e) To relate certain of the myths.