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talk). After the ceremony is over, Pungnanomsi serves a supper, 

 whereupon all go to their respective homes, the crier taking with him 

 the tray with the prayer-offerings. 



c. CHAALAWU. (CRY OUT.) 



At about sunrise the next morning the crier proceeds with the 

 prayer-offerings to the ancestral home of the Kel-Nyamu (Sparrow- 

 Hawk clan, No. 2, PI. Ill), from which all religious ceremonials that are 

 publicly announced, are cried out. On the roof of this house is situated 

 a small shrine. ' Into this the crier deposits the prayer-offerings and 

 some sacred meal, and then announces the approaching ceremony in 

 the following words : 



"tJma kwiniwii kiiyungkamu ktikuiwa htiwamu! Uma tdwange 

 kiiyungkamu ktikuiwa htiwamu! Uma tatoo kiiyungkamu ktikuiwa 

 htiwamu! Uma hopoo kiiyung-kamu ktikuiwa htiwamu! Nu dmui 

 aaonani ; hapi kush yahnmejx^bdhkop talat epak ima Ooaqoltu kiwa- 

 naw unangway tawiyanikay pasionaya. Pasaat talat ak itam ka nana- 

 mihin unangwaykahkang shopkawat.sinum yeshwani. Nap hakakwat 

 mdngwi yoiloki akw itam okwatowani. Put akvf. pas pai itam mong- 

 wactutini. Mongwactutinikae tunatyaokahkang yahpi shopkawat 

 sinom yeshwani. Yan hakam itamui shopkawatui sinmui itanamu 

 itangumu angqitamui ookalantota. Yan hakam ttinatyaokahkang 

 shopkawat sinom yeshawni. Pai hahlaikahkango, ookaoJcahkango. " 



Translation. 



You, living in the north, loom up, please!^ You, living in the 

 west, loom up, please! You, living in the south, loom up, please! 

 I shall inform you [thus]: Now then, after this, in sixteen days, 

 then these Oaqoltus, because they shall have good hearts, shall 

 perform. Until that many days we, all the people, without having 

 any contentions with (among) each other, shall (must) live.^ (Per- 

 chance) some chief shall pity us with dropping rain. With that 

 we must accomplish ^ (conclude) [this]. Because it has been accom- 



' The word translated " please " is an exclamation of welcome, and often added to a request, as 

 we add the word " please "—as " pao huwamu!" "come here, please!"; " huwamu nonowaa!" " eat, 

 please!" But while in such instances the word " huwamu " corresponds to the word " please," it can- 

 not be used in every place where the word " please " is used in the English language. 



* Any worry, sorrow, or anger disqualifies a Hopi, as a rule, to participate in a ceremony, and 

 contentions and quarrels in the village are supposed to interfere with the efficacy of a ceremony. 



^ The word "mongwactuti" (accomplish, conclude, be done, etc.) occurs in these somewhat 

 obscure phrases in many religious Hopi talks, announcements, etc. I am told that what is referred to 

 is the almost constant anxiety and concern about rain, and the meaning here is that when the rain 

 comes that anxiety and the desire for rain is concluded for the time being; at the same time the inhab- 

 itants are admonished, especially those that have been unconcerned about the matter, to continue 

 their earnest concern about this matter— the question of rain. 



