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now 3:15 A. M. Y^shiwa took something back to the Ponovi kiva, 

 probably a rattle, and another object which could not be identified. 

 Here the crook, monkoho, monwikuru and corn that Sh6khunyoma had 

 received from the Star priest were lying north of the fireplace, and 

 several of the leaders were smoking over these objects. The Wikolapi 

 kiva now sent a young man, dressed in a kilt, to the Ponovi for their 

 tray with bahos that had been taken there in the previous afternoon. 

 As soon as he got this, the Tao and Hano kivas sent for theirs also, 

 and then all the rest that had taken all their /;aAr;.y there. These trays 

 were placed north of the fireplace in their respective kivas and then 

 smoked over. A messenger was then sent frOm each kiva to Tawaki 

 (Sun house), a shrine on a mesa about three miles southeast of 

 Oraibi, with a baho and nakwakwosi from every man of each kiva. 

 The messenger from the Ponovi kiva took with him, besides a great 

 many ba/ios, the four small cakes, two wheels, two cylinders,* one 

 small crook, one long and one short baho, and with the green grass 

 from the altar, all to be deposited on the sun shrine. He left at about 

 ■4 o'clock A. M. 



Shokhunyoma, Lomankwa and Koyonainiwa then got ready for an 

 expedition, putting on blankets, as the night was cold. Shokhunyoma 

 took a tnonkoho and a small crook from the altar with a piihtavi (road 

 marker) about twelve or fifteen feet long. This crook was one of the 

 two that had been standing on the sand field in front of the altar. 

 Lomankwa also took ^motikoho, Koyonainiwa a stick, and all took some 

 cornmeal. They left the village on the east side, following the trail 

 about half way down the mesa, where Koyonainiwa dug first a hole 

 about two and a half feet deep and about five inches in diameter, and 

 then leading from it in a southeasterly direction a trench about eight 

 inches deep and about as long as the piihtavi. Shokhunyoma then put 

 some meal in the hole and trench, and placed the little crook into the 

 hole and, while Koyonainiwa held it there, stretched th.& piJhtavi along 

 the trench. All sprinkled meal on it and the earth was replaced. 

 All then walked along the covered piihtavi and returned to the kiva. f 

 When we arrived there the Wikolapi people were just going into the 

 kiva. All had their hair loose, some had kilts on, some only breech 

 cloths, none sashes, and all were naked. They were sprinkled with 

 meal by several men and then danced like Katcinas, evidently practic- 

 ing; the first one had the naisi. At the second dance the singing was 

 accompanied by the rubbing of a corrugated stick on a gourd drum. 



*These wheels (ttolia) and cylinders (gomlki) were observed in the 1897 ceremony only, but 

 undoubtedly were present in the other years also. 



tA similar performance has been observed at the same place in other ceremonies. 



