Pl. I. PONOVl KlVA WITH SOYAL AlTAR. 



In the rear is seen the large Soyal altar, under which is piled the corn 

 gathered by the four messengers. On lop of the corn is a piece of wood, three 

 inches thick and .ibout twenty-four inches long, on which are placed two of the 

 artificial blossoms, while the other two are fastened to the reredos of the altar. 

 Leaning against the corn are four monkohos,hy the side of which are two tipo- 

 nis. In front of the altar is a sandfield on which are placed the following objects 

 in the order named : A crystal tiponi (a quartz crystal inserted into a cylindrical- 

 shaped vessel of Cottonwood root), a fnomvikurti, 9. pikaviki (a cake three inches 

 in diameter and about one-half inch thick, made of white cornmeal and having 

 two black lines drawn over it crosswise), a green baho, a pikaviki, a long, single, 

 green baho with an eagle breath feather and a stem of grass kivahkivi (Sporobolus 

 cryptandrus strictus Scribu) tied to it, a pikainki, a small crook with the same 

 eagle feather tied to its lower and a \orv^ pithtavi Xo its upper end, Apikaviki, and a 

 crook as before. The bahos and crooks are standing in clay pedestals. The 

 dark spots on the sandfield mark the places where Lolulomai "buried" the 

 smoke. At the end of the sandfield near the altar should be four semicircular, 

 black cloud symbols, with black lines running up the sandridge denoting rain. 

 The drawing does not show these symbols. On each side of the altar are stand- 

 ing in clay pedestals two sticks, to which are tied alternately two bunches of 

 kuna (Artemisia frigida) and maovi (Guetteriza euthamiae), and to the top of 

 each two turkey wing feathers. The reredos measures 70^^ inches by 3^ inches 

 by about i inch, the head piece 54 inches by 3 inches by about i>^ inches, the six 

 cross slabs 45 inches by 2 inches by one-half inch. Between the fireplace and altar 

 on the floor are the four trays with cornmeal, etc., and the hihikwispi. On the kiva 

 walls are fastened the long Soyal bahos made on the seventh day. On the left 

 side of the altar in the corner is seen the chief priest, Shokhunyoma, on the 

 banquette to the right Taldhoyoma, assistant hawk and bow priest. The drawing 

 is reproduced from a photograph, made in 1899. In former years, when all the 

 kivas and inhabitants participated, the pile of corn ears on the altar was con- 

 siderably larger than the one shown on the plate. 



