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motion with the mashaata he repeated three times, always first 

 turning towards the north for a few minutes. After the fourth time 

 he thrust the mashaata behind his belt, raised and lowisred both arms 

 three times, as a bird would flap its wings, the third time swoop- 

 ing down toward the floor as if trying to pick up a bow, which 

 someone had in the. meanwhile quietly placed on the floor, by his 

 right hand. This he did in all six times, picking up the bow with 

 his left hand the sixth time. He repeated the same motion twice 

 and picked up, with his right hand, an arrow which had been placed 

 on the floor at his left side. Turning north he screeched, held 

 the bow and arrow as if ready to shoot, pointing it to the north at 

 various angles, and sweeping it several times between the two car- 

 dinal points, north and west. (See PI. XIV.) He then turned 

 toward the west, repeated the same performance, but now sweeping 

 the bow occasionally from west to south. In a few minutes he turned 

 to the south, again to the east, repeated the same performance, 

 always waving the bow occasionally toward the next cardinal point. 

 Then taking the bow in the left hand, the arrow in the right, he once 

 more turned toward the north, danced a few minutes, swung around 

 toward the south, swooped down, passed the bow and arrow from 

 behind between his feet, laying the arrow also into the left hand, then 

 grasped both with his right hand from the front side, and placed 

 them on the floor. By this last performance the exhausting, rapid, 

 trampling, stepping dance, which he, the Hawk priest, had kept up 

 since he came into the kiva was, for the first time, interrupted for a 

 few minutes. It was resumed, however, at once as soon as he took 

 the two mashaata from behind his belt, turned north again and then 

 south, and then put them down. The women said Askioali and he 

 left the kiva. 



After a recess of a few minutes Lolulomai, this time being entirely 

 nude except the breech cloth, took some cornmeal, left the kiva, 

 renewed the cornmeal lines from the north, west, south, east, south- 

 west and southeast, and took a position on the last named line about 

 ten feet from the kiva, and screeched everything exactly as Tala- 

 hoyoma had done before. Having been answered froiTi the kiva, he 

 took a position closer to the kiva and, upon the screeching having 

 been repeated from the inside, entered the kiva. Here the two tokuns 

 had, in the meanwhile, been removed from the kiva floor. Taking 

 up the two mashaata he slowly moved around, describing a square, 

 in a deeper portion of the kiva, sometimes stepping slowly, sometimes 

 tramping very rapidly, in the latter case backward and forward. The 

 two mashaata he held in his hands, sometimes holding them over his 



