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Lolulomai answered by the same sound from the kiva, and the women 

 said "Vunyaa" (come in). Approaching close to the kiva Talahoyoma 

 screeched again, and the same response came from the kiva. He 

 then entered, was sprinkled with cornmeal by the two women, went 

 to the two tnashaata, which were still lying on the floor, sprinkled 

 meal on them and commenced raising and lowering his feet in very 

 rapid succession, which caused a constant jingling of the bells on 

 his leg. After screeching again, he picked up the mashaata and 

 changed the manner of the dance. He forcibly put down one foot, 

 raised the other one very slowly, then put that down forcibly, etc. 

 While he was doing this he slowly raised the mashaata from about 

 his knees to above his head, always keeping them in a quivering 

 motion. Thus he slowly advanced, screeching at short intervals, 

 along the meal line from the place which he had left, moving toward 

 the corner near the elevated portion of the kiva, where one of the 

 tokwis (cones) stood, and where the meal line turned at a right angle 

 toward the east. Arriving at the tokwi\ie. jumped over it from west 

 to east, then back and then east again, and moved on as before. 

 Arriving at the other tokwi, at the juncture of the east, west and diag- 

 onal lines, he jumped over it in the same manner as over the other, 

 and proceeded along the diagonal line to the place of starting. Here he 

 laid down the fnashaata, the singing ceased, the women saying Askwali. 

 In a few minutes the Hawk priest, facing toward the north, began 

 to screech again, stepping very rapidly but remaining at the same 

 spot, and at once another song was commenced. Turning his face 

 toward the south he again screeched, moved his hands up and 

 down, turned toward the north, again to the south, screeched, waved 

 his hands up and down and grabbed, with a swooping downward 

 motion of the left hand, the ?nashaata lying on the opposite (east) side 

 in front of him. He then repeated this motion with the right hand, 

 feigning to grasp the other mashaata. Repeating this same motion a 

 second time, he picked it up. With every downward move of the 

 hand he ejected a number of shrill, screeching sounds in short succes- 

 sion. Having picked up the second mashaata, he raised both of 

 them up and down three times, and turned toward the north again, 

 then south, screeched, raising and lowering the mashaata in his hands 

 as before, turned to the north and again to the south, but now twirled 

 the mashaata in the right hand quickly from right to left for a few sec- 

 onds, raising it with a sweeping motion upward. This he did four 

 times,* keeping up the screeching sound. This twirling and upward 



*0n one occasion the wing was twirled and raised once the first, twice the second, three times 

 the third and four times the fourth time. 



