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and an hour and a half, so that they continue while another dance is 

 in progress. The contestants are panting and bathed in perspiration, 

 their clothes are sometimes badly torn (see No. 1, PI. XXVIII), and 

 the tray, too, is sadly twisted out of shape. (SeeNo. 2, PI. XXVIII.) 



During the forenoon, while the dances are in progress on the 

 plaza, the race for the two trays takes place down in the valley, as 

 already described. • 



In the intervals when the women are on the plaza, the chief priest 

 dismantles the altar, tying the slabs in bundles and putting the smaller 

 objects, such as the birds, cloud symbols, etc, into old jars. The 

 small kadbahos are distributed among the participants after the dance 

 is over and before they leave the kiva. On one occasion I saw them 

 placed into a blanket when the altar was dismantled; their final dispo- 

 sition I have never personally witnessed, but am told by numerous 

 parties that they are either thrust between the carefully piled up corn- 

 ears in the houses of the participants or are buried as prayer-offerings 

 in their fields. 



For the last dance, all the women rub some meal into their faces, 

 and when the chief priest has finished asperging them on the plaza, he 

 pours the water that remains in the medicine bowl into the little shrine 

 on the plaza. 



The eagle feathers and corn-ear from the natsi are, I understand, 

 put away with the altar paraphernalia; the nakwakwosis from the 

 sprig of ctivi and the pedestal are thrown on the altar sand and swept 

 up and carried out with it. The sprig itself is deposited somewhere 

 by Ng6si, but this has not been witnessed. 



