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day. My notes of that year say that at about six o'clock Wickwaya 

 commenced to make bahos. First, a light blue double baho for the 

 sun, with two eagle feather nakwakwosis attached to it (see Plate XXX, 

 h). The Marau ceremony is the only ceremony where I have seen 

 a baho of this light blue color. It is deposited, I believe, towards 

 evening somewhere south-east and close to the mesa. He also makes 

 four double green (see Plate XXX, f) and two single black bahos (see 

 Plate XXX, g) which are taken to the springs in the afternoon by the 

 two women who get the water for the ceremony. 



At about seven o'clock a woman (No. 10) came in and after she had 

 rested a little while swept up the chips and shavings left on the floor 

 from the baho making and put them into a blanket, threw a pinch of 

 meal on them and carried them out, casting them on the ground close to 

 the kiva. A little later another woman brought some young, green corn- 

 stalks, a few green sprigs of squash and beans, a peach twig with some 

 green peaches on it, and some watermelon and musk melon runners, 

 etc., which she placed on the floor near the altar. 



Several other men come in on this day to prepare special objects. 

 One of these is supposed to belong to the Bow clan. On one occasion 

 it was an old man by the name of Nakwahoyoma. He prepared two 

 sets of four arrows each, (see Plate XXX, a) and also got two wrist 

 protectors. The arrows are made of reed, with points of hard wood 

 which he painted red, pressing on the wet paint a little powder of 

 specular iron. The wrist protectors are made of old elk, buffalo or 

 heavy deer-skin and are about four inches wide. To these are sewn 

 bone plates about two inches wide, their length being the same as the 

 width of the leather part of the protector. These bones are supposed 

 to be cut out of the scapulas of slain enemies or of bears. He handed 

 these objects to two women who said, askwali, (thanks), and placed 

 them on the floor and the man smoked over them. Some one had 

 also brought in two old bows and two long sticks and two wheels or 

 rings, about seven inches in diameter. The arrows were placed with 

 these objects. One of the men formed a part of the green corn-stalks 

 and vines, mentioned before, into a compact bundle about sixteen 

 inches long and about six inches in diameter, by tying four strands of 

 yucca leaves around them. To each string he had tied a nakwakwosi; 

 to those at each end one of a "red eagle" (hawk) feather, to one of 

 the others one of an eagle, and to the last one, one of a turkey feather. 

 This bundle is also placed on the floor with the bows, arrows, etc. 

 In the meantime Navini had prepared a shaft or wand about three 

 feet long, to the point end of which he fastened two black-tipped eagle 

 tail feathers and some other feathers of various colors. Along the 



