Feb., 1912. Miscellaneous Hopi Papers — Voth. 127 



First song: Old Chokioma stood up, held a long buzzard wing feather 

 in each hand, sprinkled a little meal on each, beat time with them, 

 circled them over the medicine bowl, and brushed the meal from each 

 with the other. I think he did this six times, and then sat down. 



Other song: Old Chokioma made the four lines on the sides of the 

 kiva and between the north-east and east and the south-west and west 

 corn-ears. I did not notice whether he threw any meal to the ceiling. 



I should have remarked that the priests number one, two and three 

 were beating time with mosililis (cone shell rattles); number four with 

 one of the long eagle feathers; numbers five and six also with such feath- 

 ers, and number seven, during the first part of the ceremony with noth- 

 ing, and during the last with the aspergill (see Plate LV.) 



Other song: Qomaho picked up the north aspergill sprinkled a little 

 cornmeal and corn-pollen along it and into the bowl, then slid the piece 

 of shell along the aspergill and threw the shell in and replaced the 

 aspergill. He repeated this with the remaining five. 



Other song: Qomaho did the same performance in the same way, 

 only now threw the old nakwakwosis, one after the other, into the 

 bowl and whistled with a bone whistle each time. 



A short pause occurred here in the singing, during which Qomaho 

 whistled several times. 



Other song: (During which all the players sat around the fireplace 

 and smoked.) Qomaho picked up each corn-ear and washed off the 

 "paste" into the bowl, and sprinkled each time with his aspergill. 

 He then, between this and the next song, put all the corn-ears into the 

 medicine bowl, points downward. Chokioma picked up the old asper- 

 gills from the south and west sides of the bowl, held them in his hand, 

 also holding the medicine bowl with each hand, and then 



Another song was intoned. All the players fluted again. The 

 corn-ears were then replaced in their regular order. 



Other song: Qomaho from now on beat time with his aspergill and 

 occasionally sprinkled on the baho tray and then over the altar. Loma- 

 hungwa sprinkled corn-meal along the six corn-ears into the medicine 

 bowl. Sprinkling by Qomaho. 



Other song: Sprinkling by Qomaho. 



Other song: Sprinkling by Qomaho. 



I here left, but have reason to believe that very little of importance 

 took place after this. 



None of the men wore any part of a ceremonial costume in this 

 entire performance. Some of the players kept their shirts on, but all 

 wore the hair loose, which is always the case in all Hopi ceremonies. 



