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about ten inches square and twenty inches deep. At this batni the 

 Aototo sprinkles a meal line from the north side towards and into the 

 batni, and then pours a little water from the mongivikuru into the 

 opening from the same side. This he repeats from the west, south, 

 east, northeast and southwest. He then silently waits until the Aholi 

 has repeated the same performance, whereupon both proceed to the 

 Honani kiva, where the Hahai-i Katcina had been waiting as before 

 described. Both take a position by the side of the latter. (See 

 PI. LXIV b.) After a few minutes the Aototo goes to the north 

 end of the kiva, rubs a handful of sacred meal to the north side of 

 the hatchway and then pours a little water into the kiva, which is 

 caught up in a bowl by a man standing on the ladder. This perfor- 

 mance he repeats from the west, south and east sides of the kiva, 

 whereupon the Aototo takes his ' place again at the east side of the 

 kiva and the same performance is gone through by the Aholi Katcina, 

 who then also resumes his position with the other two. The men in 

 the kiva have in the meanwhile put on their pitkunas (ceremonial 

 kilts) and now emerge from the kiva in the following order : First 

 the pipe-lighter with the reed cigarette and cedar bark fuse already 

 described, then the Powamu chief with the medicine bowl, aspergill and 

 a baho and some sacred meal, the Katcina chief with a baho and some 

 meal and lastly the rest of the participants in the ceremony, each one 

 having some nakwaktvosis and sacred meal. The pipe-lighter smokes 

 on to the back of the Katcina and hands some meal and nakwakwosis 

 to him. The Powamu chief asperges the back of the Hahai-i Katcina 

 and then takes from him the tray, handing to him a baho and some 

 meal. The Katcina chief gives him some meal and a baho and all the 

 rest, after having sprinkled meal on his back, a nakwakwosi and meal, 

 whereupon the men re-enter the kiva, the Katcina going to the Kat- 

 cina kihu half way down the mesa on the west side of the village, into 

 which he places the prayer offerings and where he disrobes, wrapping 

 up his paraphernalia in a blanket, and returns to the Honani kiva, 

 shivering with cold. Here the priests, who, as was seen, entered the 

 kiva after the Hahai-i had left, re-emerge in the same manner from 

 the kiva and go through the same performance, the Powamu priest 

 alone giving a baho to and taking a bunch of corn from each with the 

 Aototo and the Aholi as they did with the Hahai-i. Two variations 

 should here be mentioned : First : On several occasions it was 

 observed that the Aototo and Aholi did not arrive at the kiva until 

 the Hahai-i had left, on others they were there before, as described. 

 Secondly : It was noticed on one occasion that the sprinkling of 

 water on the backs of the Katcinas occurred before the smoking ; but 



