Feb., 1912. Miscellaneous Hopi Papers — Voth. 129 



THE SUMMER CEREMONY OF THE DRAB FLUTE 



SOCIETY. 



June 13, 1901. 



Every summer, as far as observed, in the month of June, the Drab 

 Flute Society observes a one day ceremony for the special purjx>se of 

 making and depositing prayer offerings for the sun. For this purpose 

 they assemble in the ancestral houses of their respective societies where 

 they also celebrate about two months later the regular Flute ceremony, 

 which lasts nine days. 



The participants on this occasion were: Lomahungwa, chief priest, 

 Shdkhungyoma, Tuwahoyniwa, Masaveima, Sivinomtiwa, Qomaho, 

 Siviletstiwa, Talasnomtiwa, and Nakwahoyoma, who are some of the 

 leading men of the Drab Flute Society. All, except Lomahungwa, wore 

 their usual clothes, but were barefooted and had their hair untied. 

 Lomahungwa 1 wore nothing except a small breech cloth. 



The following account states, as nearly as possible, who of the men, 

 present, prepared the different objects, though sometimes they assisted 

 one another, the one doing one part, another some other part of the 

 work. 



Lomahungwa prepared the following objects: 



1. Four round prayer sticks of cottonwood root, six inches long, one 

 and one quarter inches thick, which were said to represent corn-stalks 

 (see Plate LVI). 



2. One wonawika of cottonwood root, four inches long and about 

 one and a half inches wide, representing an old weeding implement. 

 This had an old eagle breath feather and a butterfly wing from the medi- 

 cine bowl attached to it (see Plate LVI). 



3. Two prayer sticks, about six inches long, one with a facet repre- 

 senting a female prayer stick. Both had a nodule in the middle. 



4. Five single black bahos (chochokpi) six inches long. 



5. Four short and one long puhus (roads), which he moistened with 

 honey and rolled in corn-pollen. Also three plain short roads. 



6. Six double green bahos with black tips four and a half inches long. 

 All bahos had duck feather nakwakwosis tied to them. He smoked 

 over all and spurted honey over them. He also prepared the paint for 

 painting the bahos except the first named, for which Masaveima pre- 

 pared it. He put into a double mortar green and yellow, and into 

 another mortar some black paint, some honey, a pinch of some ngahu 

 (medicine), also some water and a butterfly wing; the latter he tied 



1 The accents on these proper names will be given in this paragraph only. 



