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green stalks are given to the older priestesses, and the refuse on the 

 floor is swept up and carried out. 



Soon after the noon meal the priestess, occupying the place No. 8 

 in the ceremonies, places the medicine bowl in front of the altar, first 

 making the six direction lines with meal and then putting the six ears 

 of corn, their companions, small stones, etc., around it and a little 

 quantity of powdered herb into a corn-husk. 



While all this is going on in the kiva friends and relatives of the 

 participants are repainting and generally repairing the old marau- 

 vahos 1 that are to be used the next day (see Plate XVIII). Or when 

 it is necessary new ones are made. On one occasion I noticed that 

 the chief priest made some small black bahos in the kiva, that are 

 attached to the upper end of the wide slabs. Later in the day the 

 women bring these Marau-vahos or slabs into the kiva, where they 

 are placed against the wall on the banquettes in the north end of the 

 kiva. 



At about four o'clock in the afternoon the chief priest hands to two 

 priestesses the usual prayer offerings and other objects again and sends 

 them to two different springs after water to be used in the ceremony 

 and discharms them when they return, all in the same manner as has 

 already been described under the notes of the fourth day. 



At about five o'clock p. m. the ceremony commences. It is essen- 

 tially the same as that on the afternoon of the first day, only there 

 are now more men and women present than on any previous day. 

 On one occasion I counted thirty- two, including the ten leaders and 

 a few small children. At about five o'clock the altar ceremony com- 

 mences. No. 8 first sprinkles the meal line from the east side of the 

 altar to the east side of the ladder, casting also a pinch towards the 

 hatch-way. The chief priest then stands up and discharms the freshly 

 put up altar by humming a song and sprinkling meal on a buzzard 

 feather and brushing it off six times. After he has spoken a brief 

 prayer the singing commences. During the first song No. 8 rubs the 

 four meal lines to the four kiva walls and throws a pinch of meal against 

 one of the joists and another pinch on the floor. During the second 

 song No. 8 sprinkles some powder of crushed berries along the ears of 

 corn and then put the corn-ears and their "husbands " (the old aspergills, 

 that lie by their side) into the medicine bowl on end, and pours the 

 water, that was gotten in the netted gourd vessels from two springs 

 by the two priestesses, over these objects into the bowl and then re- 

 places them. While the third song is chanted No. 7 sprinkles a pinch 

 of corn-pollen along the corn-ear on the north side and into the bowl 



1 In compound words the b in baho is changed to v. 



