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feather. Then he tied four cotton strings to four shorter eagle feath- 

 ers, smoked over them, and finally wrapped them in a corn husk and 

 put them on the same tray on which the others had placed their 

 bahos and nakwakwosis. He then wetted a Havasupai basket (see PL 

 VII), so that it would swell and become water-tight. This basket 

 was to be used for the medicine water {nahkuyi) in a ceremony in the 

 afternoon.* In the meantime Shokhunyoma and Y^shiwa had made 

 certain bahos (see PI. VIII), the former a single baho, consisting of a 

 stick somewhat over an inch thick and about fourteen inches in 

 length, colored black except for the ends and a small space in the 

 center, which were painted green. To this stick, at one end of the 

 central green space, he attached different varieties of green herbs. 

 On one occasion (1899) four, on another only two herbs were noticed, 

 which were «^z£//(Atriplex canescens, Nutt), and kwahkwi (Sporobolus 

 cryptandrus strictus, Scribn). He also fastened with these four corn- 

 husk packets, containing cornmeal mixed with honey, and finally a 

 number of small eagle (in 1899 turkey) feathers. He then attached to 

 the other end of the green space a similar number of like objects. 

 Having finished this baho he decorated! a single green baho stick about 

 one-half inch thick and about sixteen inches long, which he had pre- 

 pared earlier in the morning. He then tied to it a long green grass 

 stem {kwahkwi), an eagle breath feather, a 7iakwakivosi and a corn-husk 

 packet. He then smoked over the bahos and put them on an old, 

 large, flat tray. Next he put the nakwakwosis in three piles, smoked 

 and ejected honey from his mouth over them and put them away. 

 Y^shiwa had, in the meantime, made a baho similar to Shokhunyoma's 

 and smoked over it. The only difference between the two bahos was 

 that the one made by Shokhunyoma is a so-called vi\z\.Qbaho, the other 

 a female. The latter has a facet;}; {taiwa, face) at the upper end, which 

 is generally painted a light yellow-brown color, though sometimes it is 

 painted white. Y^shiwa had also made four nakwakwosis and two 



* This tray was used for the first time in 1897, the one formerly in use having been rejected, 

 as, on account of its great age, it would no longer hold water. It passed into the possession of Mr. 

 Voth, and is now in the Field Columbian Museum. 



fThe term applied to this act is ydshiita, meaning to clothe, which they also use in the fitting 

 of the masks and in the ordinary clothing of the body. 



t Jt is a curious fact that this marking of the facet indicating the female sex is the very last 

 act performed in the manufacture of the baho. The yellowish brown color, which is generally used 

 for painting the facet, is called pavissa, a yellow ochre obtained from the Marble Cafion when ex- 

 peditions are sent there after salt, generally once a year. Concerning the method of procuring 

 this ochre, one of the Oraibi priests states that prior to the removal of the ochre from the springs, 

 two men disrobe, loosen their hair, and standing near the springs they join hands, one stoops down, 

 deposits their prayer offerings in or near the spring and then reaches down to the bottom of the 

 spring and removes the ochre. The object of the joining of the hands seems to be to hold the man 

 from falling into the spring over which he bends. The latter is generally one who gets salt for the 

 first time. 



