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thigh, the two circles being connected by four black lines. The lower 

 part of the legs and the fore-arms and the face are painted bright yellow. 

 The chief priest and one of the other men now asperge all the women 

 from the medicine bowl and then the women file out of the kiva to 

 the public plaza, the chief priestess heading the line; Pungnyanomsi, 

 who is No. i in the altar ceremonies, being the second. In a few 

 minutes the five Marau-Takas follow the priestess with the wand (see 

 Plate XIX), who heads the dancers on the plaza, holding the lowei 

 end of the wand in her left hand and leaning it backward in her bent 

 arm (see Plate XX, a), which she moves to the time of the singing. 

 The dancers have in the meantime thrown a part of the corn-stalks 

 on the ground within the dance circle, keeping a few stalks in their 

 hands and waving them to the time of the singing (see Plate XX, b). 

 The two Archers have by this time arrived from the kiva (see Plate XXI), 

 throwing the bundle of vines, of which mention has already been made 

 several times, a short distance before them on the ground and shooting 

 their arrows at it. In this manner they make their way towards, 

 around, and finally into the circle. The two Lancers follow them (see 

 Plate XXII, a) to the plaza where they are going through the same 

 performance as the two Archers, throwing the two wheels before them, 

 and when they have come to within a few yards of the wheels they cast 

 the sticks towards them, pick the objects up (see Plate XXII) ane 

 keep repeating this; when they have also worked their way to the circle, 

 they throw the sticks and wheels over the heads of the dancers inte 

 the circle and leave them there on the ground. They then proceed tc 

 a house near by. 1 Here a woman hands to one a bowl with sweet-corn- 

 meal and to the other a bowl of water which they carry inside the dance 

 circle (see Plate XXIII, a). There they kneel on opposite sides of the 

 bowls, pour the water on the meal and make a dough (see Plate XXIII, 

 b). Of this dough they form balls, about the size of a duck egg. When 

 all the dough has been formed into balls the two women go arounc 

 inside of the circle and throw the balls over the heads of the dancers 

 among the spectators, who run, scramble, and wrangle for them from 

 all sides. In the throwing of the balls the two archers participate, 

 whereupon they leave through a street east of the plaza (see Plate 

 XXIV), while the Lancers leave through another one, west of the plaza. 

 The man who prepared the bows and arrows on the previous days 

 gathers up the arrows, and, I think, hands them to the archers. When 

 these leave, the woman with the wand also leaves (see Plate XXV). 

 She, as well as the four other Marau-Takas, disrobe in the Flute kiva 

 and then proceed in their usual garments to the Marau kiva. A 



1 On the occasions when I observed this ceremony this was the house of Lololumai, the village chief. 



