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some siEatsi feathers. Pie wrapped the baho Into a corn-husk and 

 placed it on the floor on the east side of the altar. 



Basket-making is going on throughout the day, in which even 

 Ng6si sometimes participates, as, in fact, she does every day. I again 

 noticed on one occasion that Ng6si rubbed some of the yellow powder 

 into the faces of all present. Occasionally some of the women form a 

 circle and practice the singing and dancing for the plaza performance 

 on the ninth day. A good deal of singing is also done by the women 

 while they are at work making baskets. 



Homikini brings into the kiva some time in the forenoon a small, 

 green corn-stalk and some vines and runners of beans, melons, squashes, 

 etc., which are hung on the altar on each side. 



Soon after dinner the leaders begin to renew the altar. Ng6si 

 removes the objects from in front of the upright frame and sweeps up 

 the sand, which is eagerly divided up among the women in the kiva, 

 who either. put it on the piles of sand in which they keep their basket 

 willows moist or take it home, where it is sprinkled on the floor at the 

 places where the corn is to be piled up, or, where it already has been 

 brought in; the sand is put on the floor close to the corn. 



Ng6si also ties two small trays to the two sides of the upright 

 altar frame, which have been made by herself, ties nakwakwosis to 

 the necks of the birds, places the newly made natsi in front of the 

 batfii and otherwise rearranges the objects in front of the altar. 



Masatoiniwa has in the mean while made four nakwakwosis and 

 one "road" of hawk feathers. On one occasion I noticed that he 

 had tied with the latter a few small sikatsi feathers. Between two and 

 three o'clock Ng6si puts on her at66, takes these prayer-offerings, 

 some meal, a mongwikuru, bone whistle, buzzard feather, and a little 

 honey, and after Masatoiniwa has tied the nakwakwosi from the 

 monwikuru into her hair, she again goes to the spring Linva and gets 

 some water, in the same manner as on the first day. The little singing 

 ceremony by Masatoiniwa over the objects brought back by Ng6si is 

 the same as on the first day. I am told that he sings the following 

 song, which he repeats several times: 



Cihiihiiicaka | 



Cihiihiiiihicakoya ) 



Ahanainukiya This line is sung to the north. 



Porororoka This line is sung to the west. 



Kaaochanoma This line is sung to the south, 



Kaaakuruka This line is sung to the east. 



Cihiiiihiiiicako 



Cihiiiihiiiicakoyayaya. 



This is sung twice. 



