sweat bath
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On that day the first sweat bath is taken, and one also upon each succeeding day until four baths, as a ceremony of purification, have been indulged in.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman
These stones glowing white with heat are placed in a tiny pit underneath the covering of this booth, now to be called his sweat bath.
From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon
Therefore, when a child is named, four stones are heated for the sweat bath.
From Osage Traditions by James Owen Dorsey
The sweat bath lasts for a long time, often an hour or more, during which many prayers are offered, religious songs chanted, and several pipes smoked to the Sun.
From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by George Bird Grinnell
I begin to fall off in weight like a jockey in a sweat bath.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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