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departed to deposit the potas in the large spring {Lananvd) west of 

 the mesa (see PI. XXII). Here they went round the spring from 

 right to left four times, then descended about half way into the 

 large spring or well, went around on one of the terraces again four 

 times, then thrust the long baho sticks, with the attached hihikwispi, 

 in the wall on the north side, where many similar objects may be 

 seen in all stages of decay. After this they removed a stone from the 

 wall on the west side behind which an opening was disclosed. Into 

 this they threw the bunches of corn-husk packets {inociatd) and 

 the black chochokpiata. The cornmeal from the potas they had 

 thrown, by small pinches, against the stone wall on the north, west, 

 south and east sides as they circled around. After this they returned 

 to the kiva. Here, in the meanwhile, two Mastop Katcinas had 

 appeared outside (see PI. XXIII). They had been dressed up in the 

 Kwan kiva and were painted black with white marks of hands all 

 over the body; they wore as a kilt some old skin, and had a dry grass 

 wreath around the neck. The masks (see Pis. XXIV and XXV) were 

 black with white dots over the eyes and on the sides, white hook- 

 shaped marks all around the forehead; corn-husk pendants tied to the 

 sides of the mask representing the ears, eagle feathers and red horse- 

 hair on top and two drawings of frogs in white on the back side. On 

 one side they had tied to the belt a bunch of cow hoofs. They began 

 running among the spectators outside the kiva, taking a hold of a 

 woman from behind here and there and going through the motion of 

 copulation, then they would run to the kiva, do a great deal of talk- 

 ing in a disguised voice and then run to another crowd and go 

 through the same performance. Soon they entered the kiva, where 

 they sat down to the east side of the ladder. Each man, except those 

 around the small altar, now sprinkled them with cornmeal, threw 

 some towards the ladder and then handed them naktvakwosis and 

 cornmeal, conveying to them a prayer for rain. The Katcinas put the 

 nakwakwosis and meal into a sack and left for another kiva. 



The singing, rattling at the small altar and whistling into the 

 bo^l went on during all this time, the whistler sitting in the extreme 

 southwest corner of the main kiva on the banquette. Loliilomai sat 

 down in the southwest corner of the kiva. (In 1893 he participated 

 in the ceremony before the large altar, taking the part of the asperger.) 



Koyonainiwa, who had put on his war paraphernalia, except the 

 buckskin, repainted hie shield, face, etc. After the Mastop Katcinas 

 had left, he handed a crystal to the men, on which they sucked four 

 times and held it to their hearts. He also bit off pieces of roots, 

 chewed them and spat on the shield before repainting it. In one 



