i8 Field Columbian Museum^Anthropology, Vol. VI., No. I. 



II. 



" Pohohohoolaina, 



Poooolaina, Poooolaina; 



Pohohoholaina, Pohohoholaina 



Ayaywaitawaita ciyano 



AyaywAitawaita ciyanohay. " 

 Both songs are chanted a number of times. As the language is 

 , not Hopi I was unable to ascertain the meaning. They are undoubt- 

 edly fragmentary parts of old songs. All three put some meal on the 

 tray, whereupon it is placed on the west side of the altar. Breakfast 

 is then eaten, Ng6si fasting all day, the others abstaining from meats 

 and salted food. After breakfast, four girls are directed to put on 

 their ceremonial blanket (at66) and are then sent out with the prayer- 

 offerings just described, one to the north, another to the west, the 

 third to the south, and the fourth to the east side of the village, where 

 they lay them down at prescribed places,' sprinkling a little meal on 

 them after they have been deposited. 



During the day most of the women are generally in their houses. 

 Some, however, engage in making baskets in the kiva. The novices 

 grind corn the first four days for their godmothers, who in turn make 

 trays for the novices, or in some cases,- though seldom during the first 

 four days, instruct the latter in the art of basket-making. The bask- 

 ets made during the ceremony are used invth,e, 0vi|plic performance on 

 the ninth day and are made in a great variety of designs. Those 

 made by the beginners are usually small and far from being elaborate. 

 While the women are thus engaged in the manufacture of trays 

 the two men either get wood for the kiva or do work in their homes. 

 When in the kiva they smoke or eat occasionally. Now and then chil- 

 dren are initiated; the larger ones receive the proper number of 

 nakwakwosis and all the usual corn-ear "mother"; but head scratch- 

 ers, I am told, are given on the first day only. 



All eat in the kiva; even the girls who grind corn in the houses 

 come to the kiva for that purpose. Again no meat or seasoned food 

 is eaten. 



'On the north side, in a shrine called "Kuiwanva," on the west side at a shrine called 

 "Nuvatikaovi (Snow Right)," on the south side near a bush at the edge of the mesa, on the east side 

 at a place, half-way down the mesa, that has no special name. 



