tout ensemble
which we can compare to nothing,
as there was nothing in nature comparable to it.
Those guests who assembled first passed their time in
smoking the medicine pipe until the others should arrive,
for so long as a single invited guest is absent the feast
cannot begin. Dignified silence was maintained while
the pipe thus circulated from hand to hand. When the
last guest arrived they began.
The men were seated in two rows, face to face.