38 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. VI., No. I. 



NINTH DAY. 

 TlkEVEE. (DANCE.) 



At about twelve o'clock in the night the practicing, and to a 

 certain extent the loud talking, ceases, piki trays, food bowls, and 

 watermelon rinds are taken away, parts of the kiva swept, and then 

 all arrange themselves south of the altar, whereupon the usual singing 

 ceremony is gone through, which ends by the rubbing of meal by 

 Qoyangosi into the faces of all present, a short prayer by her and 

 Masatoiniwa, and the throwing of a pinch of sacred meal to the altar 

 by all. 



The same "waving ceremony" then takes place that has been 

 described in connection with the ceremonies of the night between the 

 fourth and fifth day. The distribution of the objects, the assigning 

 of places, especially to the novices, etc., was attended by a great deal 

 of talking, instructing, and counterinstructing, as many as a dozen 

 women talking at the same time, v/hich in connection with the crying 

 of the babies, who had been aroused from their slumber, causes one to 

 forget for the time being that a — to the Hopis — very sacred ceremony 

 is about to be enacted. The chief priestess again waved the tiponi as 

 in the other night. Homikini rattled the mosilili rattle, while Masa- 

 toiniwa, strange to say, whistled with the bone whistle, which is 

 always done by the sprinkler. The chief priestess and sprinkler then 

 went through the same performance, east of the ladder, outside of the 

 kfva, and then in front of the novices, as that described in connection 

 wi*th the night performances of the fourth day. Hereupon a short 

 recess was taken, which was followed by more rehearsals of singing 

 and dancing. 



At about half-past three o'clock in the morning the leaders assume 

 their usual places south of the altar and sing a few morning songs 

 several times, while the women and girls take meal and go out to 

 perform the rite of kiiivato, already described. 



Morning Song, chanted by the leader on the morning of the 

 second, third, fourth, and ninth days: 



Taldokuiwa, 



Talaokuivato, 



Hao ! uhvim manaha ! 



Taldokuivato! 



Qoyangwunu, 



Sikangwunu, 



Talaotiha! 



' Several' songs are sung and they seem to vary somewhat. As they are usually sung or 

 hummed very quietly, I have been unable to record them, but Masatoiniwa and Homikini claim that 

 the two given in the text are usually among those that are chanted. 



