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Seventh Day. (Sixth Day of the People.) 



In the morning as well as in the evening the usual ceremony 

 takes place before the altar, consisting of singing, asperging, smok- 

 ing, sprinkling of sacred meal, etc., as already described. The two 

 tablets with the pictures of the Ho Katcinas and the lightning frame, 

 that are put up only on the occasion of an initiation, are not taken 

 down, but remain throughout the ceremony. 



During the day nothing of any ceremonial character takes place, /. e. , 

 outside of the morning and evening ceremony already mentioned. The 

 men in the kiva work during the day between the two ceremonies on 

 the bows, rattles and hVius that are prepared in this and all other kivas 

 to be given as presents to the children on the morning of the last day. 



Smoking is being indulged in more or less throvighout the day 

 and the fasting is observed the same as on the two previous days, no 

 one eating any meat or salted food and the two leaders partaking of 

 one meal only, which is brought to them late in the evening and 

 usually consists oi piki (thin wafer bread), which is brought in on four 

 flat, square trays, a dish of beans and water (pongawd) in four bowls 

 of the same size, and almost any kind of food, but none with salt, 

 and no meats. A mush of corn-meal and water (tvotakd) is always 

 also brought in on four small round trays, but I am told that this is 

 not eaten by the two chief priests but by the others in the kiva. 

 Usually this also forms a part of the food of the leaders when they 

 fast. Why not in this case I have thus far been unable to learn. All 

 the participants sleep in the kiva throughout the ceremony. 



Eighth Day. (Seventh Day of the People.) 



In the morning the usual ceremony takes place, the natsi of 

 course being put up first as on all the previous days. These morning 

 ceremonies usually commence at about half-past four in the morning 

 and last about an hour and a half.* Between the conclusion of the cere- 

 mony and breakfast there is usually a short interval during which the 

 men smoke, gossip, doze, etc. Then breakfast is served, being brought 

 to the kiva by the mothers, wives and daughters of the participants. 

 The fast is at an end on the evening of this day so that at the end of 

 the evening meal any kind of food may be eaten. Soon after break- 



*It cannot be stated that to be " on hand " in the kiva from day to day at such an early hour 

 is an especially enjoyable occupation, particularly at that season of the year and as the " air " in 

 the kiva in which the men stay day and night is. never of the purest kind, and the fire-wood is some- 

 times damp and the kiva consequently often full of smoke. 



