PL. VIII. The Chief Priestess Waiting to be Discharmed. 

 The plate shows Ngosi immediately after her return from the spring with 

 the water to be used in the ceremony. While the chief priest is consecrating the 

 water near the altar, she is silently waiting at the foot of the ladder until he is 

 through, when he steps up to her, and standing before her, discharms her by 

 slowly humming a song and sprinkling ashes along a feather and brushing it off 

 the feather toward the hatchway, as described in the text. 



