9/26/1804

William Clark:

...we Smoked for an hour [till] Dark & all was Cleared away a large fire made in the Center, about 10 misitions playing on tamberins [NB: made of hoops & skin stretched]. long sticks with Deer & Goats Hoofs tied So as to make a gingling noise and many others of a Similer kind, those men began to Sing, & Beet on the Tamboren, the women Came foward highly Deckerated in theire way....