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tray on the floor, and says, "Askwali" (thanks)! Masatoiniwa 

 says the same, and all three sprinkle corn-meal towards the 

 altar. Those who do not have any in their hand are given some 

 by the others from one of the trays. Masatoiniwa and all the women 

 in the circle around the altar, who may be considered the leaders, 

 hereupon say, "Pai ita ookaoyani" ("We shall be strong, or encour- 

 aged"). Ng6si goes slowly along the meal and corn-pollen line from 

 the tiponi towards, and a few rungs up, the ladder, which ends the 

 ceremony. It is now generally about five o'clock in the afternoon. 

 The meeting breaks up and most of the participants leave the kiva, 

 the girls generally leaving first. Soon a great variety of food is 

 brought into the kiva by women and girls and placed on the floor. 

 The inmates of the kiva group themselves around it and enjoy the 

 supper, which has been provided by the families of the participants in 

 the ceremony, and which is seasoned and flavored by a lively conver- 

 sation, by jokes, and laughter, of which the Hopi are very fond. 



SECOND DAY. . 

 SHUSH TALA. (ONCE DAY.) 



The women who, of course, have slept in the kiva, arise between 

 four and half past four o'clock in the morning. As soon as they 

 are awake they commence to practice singing, some sitting up, some 

 still lying down. Some continue to sleep as long as they are permitted 

 to do so. A few of the other women, with Masatoiniwa, seat them- 

 selves in front of the altar and sing a few songs, though this is so 

 informal that it can hardly be called a ceremony. They are songs to 

 the dawn and the morning and are sung on the morning of the second, 

 third, fourth, fifth, and eighth days. 



At about five o'clock, when all are up, a little ceremony takes 

 place, called "kdivato. " The women take their corn-ear "mothers" 

 and a pinch of sacred meal and proceed to a rock south-east of but 

 close to the village, the chief priestess leading the column. Here 

 they form in a line, facing the east. They hold the sacred meal to 

 their lips, whisper a prayer on it, and then throw it towards the east, 

 where the qoyangwunuptu (white-rising or dawn), or sometimes the 

 sikangwunuptu (yellow-rising or dawn) may be seen illumining the sky. 

 The novices also deposit one of the four nakwakwosis which they 

 received with the head scratcher the previous day. All then silently 

 return — Ng6si again heading the line — to the kiva, where they replace 

 their corn-ears on the floor near the altar. This rite of kiiivato takes 

 place in all Hopi kiva ceremonies, so far as I know, though varying 



