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a great many little cotton-tail rabbits jumped up, which they dis- 

 tributed among the children. The singers kept up their singing 

 during all these performances. 



The Yayaatu now all entered'the kiva. Soon they came out again, 

 some hunting and uncovering the strings that they had buried and 

 attached to the houses. Others that followed them wound the 

 strings up on balls. . Whenever one string was found and wound up 

 another one was hunted and wound, so they all went through the 

 village hunting and winding the strings that they had buried. Sud- 

 denly they all proceeded to the house of the Cotton-tail Rabbit 

 clan (Tdb-namu), where Homihoiniwa and his family now live, and 

 here one of the strings ran into a water-jug. This they lifted up 

 without drawing the string out, and carried it also to the plaza where 

 they split it in two. It was found that on the inside a cloud symbol 

 was painted in each half jug. They lifted up the two parts of the 

 jug and showed the cloud symbols to the people. Hereupon they 

 covered up the two parts, sang over them, and when they took the 

 covering off the jug was whole again as before, whereupon they re- 

 turned it to the house. 



The leader once more went into the kiva and came back with a 

 bowl containing some diluted white kaolin (dumakuyi). This they 

 took to the top of the Marau kiva, which is so situated that from it a 

 long high bluff, which is called Canavitoika, can be plainly seen in 

 the distance (probably eight or ten miles to the west). The Yayaatu 

 now gathered around the bowl and putting eagle feathers into the 

 white kaolin they moved them up and down in the air, as if white- 

 washing that distant bluff, and behold, the bluff, though far away, 

 at once assumed a white color. All the people could plainly see that 

 it was being whitewashed, though it is far away. Hereupon they 

 returned to the plaza, the singers now stopping their singing. They 

 cut up the watermelons and distributed slices. All then entered the 

 kiva again, the mothers and the relatives of these youths now crowd- 

 ing towards this kiva wanting to get their children. The watcher of 

 the kiva kept them back, saying, however, that they had not yet been 

 discharmed. 



When they had all entered the kiva the Hawk-man discharmed 

 them and then set n6ekwiwi and white piki before them, sa3'ing, 

 "Now eat 'and then you sleep in the kiva one night. In the morning 

 when your people come for you you can go with them." In the 

 evening the mothers again came and clamored for their children, but 

 the youth, that was watching the kiva, told them to go home, as they 

 were going to sleep there one night. The Hawk -man and the old 



