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the aforesaid old man, who told them that they should dress -him up 

 and put him into the tiw6nyapavi (Katcina shrine on the plaza in 

 which there was a stone image of a Katcina and which was supposed to 

 belong to the Katcinas). So they dressed him up, painting his back 

 black, his chest and abdomen red, and both sides of the front part of 

 his body green. On the arms, chest, and legs they made the typical 

 marks of P6okong (two short lines). To the back of his head they 

 fastened a p6htakni,' of the tail of a sparrow-hawk, extending up- 

 wards with the points of the feathers. To the top of his head they 

 fastened a horn. His face was also painted black. He was to rep- 

 resent the Balolookong. He wore no costume. 



When they were done they went to the plaza during the night 

 when all the people were asleep. They dug a hole in the shrine 

 already mentioned above, so that it would admit the man entirely. 

 Hereupon they placed in his arms all the bdhos that he had made, 

 and with them they placed a Balolookong whistle. They also gave 

 him a little bowl with some water, into which he could blow the 

 whistle, as is still done in some ceremonies. They then covered up 

 the opening with a large flagstone, covering earth and dust over it 

 to destroy all appearances of the opening that had been made, and 

 finally placed a piece of native cloth over it. They then commenced 

 to sing some sorcerer's songs. When they sang the third song, the 

 old man in the ground began to eject rumbling, roaring sounds, and 

 told the chiefs: "I have been successful, I have reached my object." 

 "All right, " they said, and left the old man remaining in the ground. 

 None of the inhabitants of the village had noticed anything. The 

 buried man then thrust about half of his hand through an opening 

 that he had made, and when the people arose in the morning, they 

 noticed the hand and said: "Something is protruding here." The 

 old man then sang: 



Ala kwikwi, ala kwikwi, 



Ala kwikwi, ala kwikwi, kwi — • (with a rising inflection). 

 As he sang the last word he lowered his little finger. The sun was 

 now rising. The next morning he sang the same words, lowering 

 the next finger, and on the third morning he again sang the same 

 song and lowered the third finger. By this time the people, who had 

 seen and heard it, felt very unhappy and were afraid that some evil 

 would befall them. They now noticed, that at the places where four 

 years previously the bdhos had been planted by the direction of 

 the ghost, water began to come out of the ground. These bd.hos had 



• A number of feathers which are arranged side by side, but close together, forming a fan 

 shaped head-dress which is worn on many ceremonial occasions by various dancers. 



