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(The prelude then follows as a conclusion and the whole song 

 is repeated several times.) 



Translation. 



There!' 



There! 



Beautiful white rising has dawned. 



Beautiful yellow rising has dawned. 



There! 



There! 



Go (the) day has dawned. 



Go (the) day has dawned. 



Figured butterfly maiden,^ 



White butterfly maiden,^ Hao! 



Everything (and anything) bring,* 



Figured butterfly maiden, 



White butterfly maiden, Hao, hao! 

 When the performance is over everything is replaced, whereupon 

 Talasngainoma takes one of the crooks and some corn-meal and joins 

 Ng6si, who has remained standing in her place. Both then leave the 

 kiva and stop outside, about twenty feet from the kiva. Ng6si first 

 holds the meal to her lips and then sprinkles some on the ground, some 

 towards the east. Hereupon she waves the tiponi in the same direc- 

 tion, and then holds it to her breast. This she does three times. 

 Talasngainoma hereupon sprinkles her meal and then both re-enter 

 the kiva, where they resume their position in the south-east corner of 

 the deeper part of the Jciva, but now facing southward. Ng6si utters 

 a prayer, which was spoken in such a low tone and so fast that I could 

 not record it at the time, but which one of the leaders says is about as 

 follows: 



"Pai hapi itam yep shiian pasionaya. Itam it itah maksoni akw 

 pas pai mongwactutini ; yahpio itam shopkawat sinom yeshwani. Pai 

 hahlaikahkango, ookaokahkango!" (And now we worship here, just 

 of one mind. We by this our effort must bring this to a conclusion 



'The word "ma," of which a whole line is formed, is an exclamation something like "there!" 

 "there nowl" "do you see?" etc. 



"The term "tuvevolimanatu" is used as well for smaller girls (referring to their hair whorls) as 

 for young corn-stalks. But as this is evidently not the complete song, it is difficult to decide which is 

 meant, but probably both. 



^See previous remark: "Qoyavolimana" refers to larger maidens and larger corn-stalks than 

 "Tuvevolimana." 



* Refers in the first place to the objects taken from the altar and waved during the singing. 



