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make prayer offerings. Most of these were of the common type, 

 consisting of two green sticks with black tips. Also here and there 

 a bent baho {noloshhoyd) was made, which is said to be the first baho 

 made for a little boy, and numerous makbahos or hunting bahos. 

 (See PI. XV.) All the short double bahos had the usual sprig of Arte- 

 misea frigida, or Gutterrezia euthamia, and a turkey feather tied to the 

 reverse, and a corn-husk packet tied to the obverse side. Most of 

 them had a duck feather nak^uakwosi tied to them, but it was stated 

 that those were substituted by chat feathers in case the maker of the 

 baho had no duck feathers. The rwloshhoxas, it is stated, also have 

 some rabbit fur tied to them. Most of the double bahos, which are 

 sometimes also called kali (corn) bahos, were five inches long. In 

 addition to these a number of men made a tatca (sun) baho, which 

 was essentially the same as the common baho, but was seven inches 

 long and had two eagle- feather nakwakivosis tied to it instead of the 

 single duck nakwakwosi. It was stated that this baho was for the sun 

 but that one of the last named nakwaktuosis was for the moon. (See 

 PI. XVI.) The number of bahos made by the different men varied very 

 much, but most of them made from eight to twelve. Two, it was 

 noticed, had made even fifteen. Almost all bahos had black tips, except 

 one made by Koyonainiwa which had green. Tanakyeshtiwa's ' 'males' ' 

 were entirely black, "females" entirely green; in his five-inch baho both 

 male and female were green with black tips. Punnaoniwa had two 

 four-inch green bahos with black tips. Shokhunyoma had one pair 

 entirely green and a number of five-inch bahos; Naioshinima and 

 his son had each one pair of yellow {pazaissa), Kiwanwahtiwa also two 

 yellow. The water for mixing the paint was taken from a small bowl, 

 after whistling into it with a small bone whistle. Many of the men 

 wore kilts. When the short double bahos were finished, they were 

 placed on trays in the north part of the kiva. The kiva was swept 

 and very many nak^vaktvosis were made and fastened (3, 4, 5, 10, etc.) 

 to willow sticks and different grasses of various lengths. These are 

 the typical Soyal bahos. (See PI. XVII.) Other nakwakwosis were tied 

 to the ladder (to prevent accident) or given to friends to be put in a 

 house, corral, to be tied on a dog, horse, etc. Hundreds of long 

 Soyal bahos were made. When they were finished they were put on 

 pegs on the kiva walls and again the kiva was sv^'ept. A large number 

 of nak7i>akivosis were also made for many different purposes, as will be 

 explained more fully later on. Now and then a man handed one or 

 more to another man saying: this is for your boy, burro, peach trees,* 



* For the peach trees owl feathers are used, as the owl— as also the Owl Katdna— is said to 

 have siiecial influence over the growth of peaches. 



