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replaces them. This she repeats with all the other ears of corn and 

 aspergills. 



The third song then follows. Another woman (No. 7) sprinkles a 

 pinch of corn-pollen, I think, into the medicine bowl from the north 

 side and then picks up an eagle bone whistle, bends over the medicine 

 bowl and whistles into it (see Plate IX, b) asperging with the whistle 

 when she is through. This sherepeats from the other five directions. 



During the fourth song another woman (No. 3) moves slightly 

 forward in a kneeling position, picks up the ear of corn and makwanpi 

 on the north side of the medicine bowl, dips them into a liquid and 

 asperges. This she repeats with the remaining five corn-ears and 

 makwanpis. 



Fifth song. Two women (No. 2 and No. 10) each take the two old 

 bow sticks, the one from the east, the other from the west side of the 

 altar; another woman (No. 7) takes the two sticks with the grass wheels 

 from the figurine on the west side, No. 9 takes those from the 

 figurine on the east side of the altar, and all beat time with these objects 

 on the floor. At a certain place of the song they raise them and with 

 a sweeping, downward motion they dip them into the medicine bowl 

 and then asperge with them towards the altar. When they dip their 

 objects into the bowl all the others make a motion towards the bowl 

 with the objects that they hold in their hands. All this is done six 

 times. 



Sixth song. All sprinkle meal on the altar six times at short in- 

 tervals. A short interruption now occurs in the singing, during which 

 the chief priest takes a pinch of honey into his mouth, rises and takes 

 the large cone-shaped pipe or cloud blower and lights it at the fireplace, 

 whereupon the 



Seventh song is commenced, during a part of which the chief priest 

 blows smoke from the cloud blower over the altar and especially into 

 the medicine bowl. The woman sitting at his right side (No. 7) 

 shakes his shell rattle. 



A number of songs, as nearly as I have been able to make out, eight, 

 now follow, during which nothing is done except occasional asperging 

 by the chief priest. Before the 



Ninth song starts the chief priest steps behind the altar, the woman 

 at the north-west corner of the altar (No. i) 1 moving forward in a 

 kneeling position. 



To her the chief priest hands a stick which he takes from the sand 

 ridge of the altar, swinging or moving it along the cotton string road 



1 In all the ceremonies, that I observed, this was Pungnyanomsi, the sister of Chief Lolulomai- 

 she, as well as her older brother Shokhungyoma, is called Kik-mungwi (village chief) and they are 

 said to "own the houses." 



