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breast or to his head, at other times flopping them up and down as a 

 bird would flap its wings, and then laying them over the back side of 

 his hips, as if imitating the folding of a bird's wings. When he 

 flopped the inashaata and performed the rapid, tramping motions, he 

 usually screeched. During all these performances the Soyalmana, 

 dressed in the white ceremonial robe (Joihi), kept close to his heels, 

 imitating all his motions, but holding a white corn ear instead of the 

 mashaata. Suddenly the Soyalmana sat, or rather dropped down, near 

 her seat as if exhausted. Loliilomai danced around the circuit once 

 more, then placed the mashaata on the floor, whereupon the Soyal- 

 mana resurned her usual place on the banquette. 



After an interval of a few minutes Lolulomai again picked up the 

 mashaata, squatted down near the northwest corner of the kiva and, 

 waving the mashaata vigorously backward and forward, worked his 

 way slowly toward the sand pile in the southeast corner of the deeper 

 portion of the kiva, screeching at short intervals and keeping his 

 eyes constantly fixed on the sand pile. All present were singing. 

 Having arrived at the sand pile, he thrust the mashaata forcibly into 

 it, continued the motions with empty hands, and soon again grasped 

 the mashaata. Walking over to the Soyalmana in a stooping position 

 and putting the mashaata one after the other on the floor before him- 

 self, he squatted down before her, screeched and worked the mashaata 

 up and down with a quivering motion, one on each side of the Soyal- 

 mana, and touching her with them on the feet, knees, shoulders and 

 head. Then moving them slowly downward he touched the same 

 portions of his body but in a reverse order, worked his way back 

 again to the sand pile, repeated the same performance there as 

 before, walked back to the Mana in the same "on-all-fours" position, 

 and there repeated the same performance as before. He returned to 

 the sand pile, back to the Mana, again to the sand pile, again back to 

 the Mana and once more to the sand pile, whereupon the perform- 

 ance and also the singing ceased. Another song was commenced, 

 and in a few minutes Lolulomai again worked his way in a squatting 

 position from the northwest corner of the deeper portion of the kiva 

 towards the sand pile, waving the fnashaata and screeching as before. 

 When he got near the sand pile he increased his pace, screeched 

 more vigorously and snatched from Koyonainiwa with his teeth an old 

 small skin which the latter had been waving towards him above the 

 sand pile. The skin was said to be that of a piwani and seemed to 

 be about the size of a weasel skin, although it could not be identified.* 



* The Hopi say the piwani (which seems to be no other than the weasel) is very quick, and 

 when chased into a hole, will work its way through the ground and "get out" at some other place 



