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as I have ascertained, who had planted any corn in that kiva in addition 

 to the beans. Of the latter, some had been planted by all of the inha- 

 bitants of the kiva. The bahos, which the two Katcinas had obtained 

 at the different places where they stopped, were also lying in th^ 

 kiva, and I was told that they would be deposited in the afternoon at 

 one of the principal " Katcin ^i'Aus" south of the village, called Kuwa- 

 waimawee. 



In all the other kivas, and also in the houses, preparations are 

 being made for a feast in which the beans that were pulled in the 

 kivas early in the morning and have since been cooked form the 

 principal dish. 



In the Honani kiva the dismantling of the altar is now completed. 

 It will be remembered that the following objects remained at their 

 places when the altar was taken down on the previous evening : The 

 four na^st sticks, the tiponi, the "mother" {tiponi of the Katcina 

 priest), the medicine bowl, the six corn ears, a mongwikuru and the 

 four bahos that had been standing in the sand ridge. All the objects 

 belonging to the altar proper are wrapped up, the four bahos are 

 placed on the tray which the Hahai-i carried and on which are still 

 lying the cottonwood twig, a few small twigs of pine and some green 

 corn, all of which, I believe, belong to the Powamu priest. This 

 tray, the medicine bowl and the bowl with the water which the Aototo 

 and the Aholi had poured into the kiva are temporarily placed on the 

 banquette in the north part of the kiva. The sand ridge is swept up 

 by a member of the Sand clan and the sand deposited near the afore- 

 mentioned batni, a few paces south of the kiva. 



Towards noon the Powamu priest disposes of the water poured 

 into the bowl by the Aototo and Aholi, and of that in the medicine 

 bowl and mongwikuru, and of the objects remaining in the tray. This 

 has been observed only once and the following facts were noted 

 down : 



At about ten o'clock the Powamu priest Siima went into the 

 kiva, placed the green corn, pine sprigs, and beans on the floor in the 

 northwest corner of the kiva in four small bunches, placing with each 

 lot also one of the bahos from the altar sand ridge. He then sang a 

 long song over these objects, accompanying himself with a gourd 

 rattle, during which he sprinkled with a makwanpi (aspergill) all the 

 water from the bowl on the four piles. After he was through singing 

 he also poured on them the water from the medicine bowl. He then 

 placed the four bahos, the mongwikuru and some sacred meal on the 

 tray and took the tray to a field west of the mesa. Here he first dug 

 a hole in the soft sand and then took some meal from the tray, held it 



