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etc., etc. All listened very attentively, with the exception of one 

 man, Lomanimtiwa, who made a baho to be placed into a hole south 

 of the kiva during the following night. This hole is called /5a/«/(well 

 or cistern). When the messenger had told his story the objects were 

 placed before the altar, the mongwikuru in front of Cotukvnangwu, 

 the rest west of the Katcina tiponi (mother). 



After this the men go to work on the presents for the children 

 again. One, however, is sent to Pakavi, a large spring about four 

 miles north of Oraibi, for a branch oi pikwashovt, aspecies of cotton- 

 wood, a sapling of which is said to have been brought from Ki'shiwuu 

 long ago and planted at Pakavi, from which by this time several large 

 trees have sprung up. The branch is placed east of the altar. At 

 about noon the Powamu priest makes three bahos, one stick of which 

 is green, the other black, the green one being the female. These 

 bahos are placed in front of the altar for use on the next morning, 

 when one is given each to the Hahai-i, Aototo and Aholi Katcina, if I 

 am not mistaken, and four hawk and eight turkey nakwakwosis, the 

 latter to be taken to a spring in the afternoon. All these were also 

 placed near the altar. He then repaints and dresses the mask of the 

 Hahai-i, or Angwushnacomtaka Katcina, first scraping off the old 

 paint. The pipe-lighter fills a reed with native tobacco and ties up 

 with yucca some dry cedar bark into a fuse, the first being called 

 chongotna, the latter kopichoki (see PI. XL). Both are also placed at 

 the altar to be used the next morning. Soon after dinner one of the 

 men is sent to a spring northeast of the village after water. He takes 

 with him a hikvsi or piitavi (road marker) and the aforementioned 

 eight nakwakwosis, a mongwikuru, a bone whistle {totokpi) and some 

 corn-meal. I followed the messenger on one occasion and made the 

 following observations : Arriving at the spring, which is half way 

 down the mesa, he first blew the bone whistle four times. Then, 

 after having uttered a short prayer, he deposited four of the eight 

 nakwakwosis* in a rock niche near the spring, then sprinkled sacred 

 meal into the spring from the six ceremonial directions and then 

 dipped a little water with the mongwikuru, six times, I believe, pour- 

 ing it on the ground near the spring in order, he said, to induce the 

 clouds to bring more water, and then filled the vessel. Coming up 

 from the spring, he placed the hikvsi 2)aovX six yards from the spring 

 on the trail, and sprinkled a line of meal from the spring over 

 the hikvsi towards the village (so that the rain, he said, when 

 coming to the spring, might also go to the village), and then returned 



*M y notes fail to state what he did with the remaining four nakwakwosis, but my recollection 

 is that he placed them with the hikvst on the trail. 



