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with a sweeping downward motion now picked up the arrow with his 

 right hand, but again, as with the bow, not with the first downward 

 sweep of the hand but with the second or third. Turned north 

 again, screeched and pretended to shoot with the bow and 

 arrow pointing northward as if ready to shoot, moving the 

 bow and arrow upward and downward. (See PI. XIV.) Then 

 he enacted the same performance west, south and eastward, 

 always stepping quickly to the time of the music. Finally turning 

 southward, he screeched, stooped down, put the bow and arrow 

 from behind between his feet, grasped them both with his left hand 

 and put them on the floor. Then he took the two mashaata from 

 his belt and did the same with them, whereupon the song stopped. 

 Talahoyoma left the kiva and Lolulomai, who in the meanwhile had 

 dressed up in the same manner, followed with four meal balls. Tala- 

 hoyoma returned and took a seat on the elevated part of the kiva. 

 Some one (in '94 Tanakyeshtiwa) removed the tokicis. Lolulomai now 

 threw down the four balls, the women saying '^ Askwali.'' Lolulomai 

 entered, threw a little meal on the mashaata, picked them up, 

 screeched, and then assuming a squatting position about in the 

 middle of the kiva on the diagonal meal line, first waved them towards 

 the sand hill in the southeast corner of the kiva, intently looking in 

 that direction. Nacinonsi now stepped behind Lolulomai, who got up 

 and the two danced or rather stepped very slowly awhile around in a 

 circle, every once in a while advancing forward and retreating with a 

 rapid shuffling step, Nacinonsi always keeping close to Lolulomai's 

 heels and waving a corn ear to the time of the music. Lolulomai 

 screeched at intervals and waved the mashaata up and down, the slow 

 and fast stepping changing about. Occasionally he would forcibly 

 bring his arms downward with a sweeping motion. Once or twice he 

 held \.\ve. mashaata \.o his head, breast, folded them both over his hips as 

 if to imitate the folding of wings by a bird, the Soyalmana imitating 

 nearly every motion with her corn ear; while dancing they described an 

 irregular square. Another short, rapid stepping, and then the Soyal- 

 mana sat down in a few minutes; Lolulomai stopped too, laying the 

 mashaata on the floor. (It was now midnight.) 



Ninth Day, 12:01 a. m., Tikive (Dancing Day.) 

 In a few minutes Lolulomai squatted down, picked up the masha- 

 ata again and then another song was intoned. Waving the mashaata 

 toward the sand pile in the southeast corner he stepped towards it 

 (in a squatting position), setting the points of the mashaata on the 

 floor occasionally as if walking with them. When he reached thq 



