Show Seventy Braves Gird for Colorful I Sun Dance Trance on Fort Hall fall Reservation I I POCATELLO TELLO July 24 Y iP pared Pre to dance until the they drop fromI from exhaustion seventy S braves of the I Bannock Bennoch and Shoshone tribes be begin n nI I their annual t sun dance this en e evening g ion on the Fort Hall reservation north lof i of here 1 Naked except for breech b ech cloths I their bodies brilliantly painted and andl their hair decorated with feathers the Indians will start their tribal ceremony cere mony moray at sundown and for three days das and three nights dance without food or water Indian tradition says this tribute to the sun assures assure good health and nd aids In curing all lib Ills The dance takes place around a tree trunk In the center of ot a a. circular pavilion pa pay part of which is covered and provided pro with booths or r resting sting places for the thc exhausted braves Atop the twelve foot tree trunk is 15 a a. buffalo buffalohead buffalohead buffalohead head or some similar emblem The participants IW face the emblem In the center dance danee back and forth and blow wooden whistles sometimes gesticulating and uttering prayers or supplications Musical accompaniment ment Is provided by Indian men and andl women who beat on drums of or their I Iown own make chant monotonously and I have small branches which they hold holdIn I In their hands Meanwhile outside the pavilion pavillon whites and Indians gather to witness the dance the visiting Indian fam fam- lUtes dies forming villages of scores of lodges tents and teepees teepees' near by A huge feast prepared by bj other members of the tribes tribe Is ready for lor forthe forthe the braves when the ceremony Is over oyer I |