Feb., 1905. Oraibi Natal Customs — Voth. 59 



up in the blanket and held by the grandmother, who rubbed its face 

 and body with corn -meal.* The step-sister of the baby carried out 

 the water. The child was here nursed by the mother. Another woman 

 came in with a little water and also bathed the child. The mother, 

 in the mean while, warmed a blanket, in which the child was placed 

 again as soon as it was bathed, whereupon the mother re-assumed the 

 nursing of the child. No one else coming in, the grandmother took 

 the child in her left arm, picked up the two corn-ears with her right 

 hand, waved them forward over the chest of the child, expressed the 

 usual good wish, and gave the child a name. The same thing was 

 repeated by the other three women in the sequence in which they hap- 

 pened to be sitting. 



The first name given the child was "Little-Fox" (Sikdhtayhoya); 

 the .second, "Gray-In-a-Line" (QSydwishtiwa); the third, "Beautiful- 

 Brought" (Lomimakiwa), referring to a pretty fox skin which is im- 

 agihed to have been brought by some one; the fourth, "Remembered" 

 (Uuna), referring to the fact that the Coyote sometimes happens to think 

 about some food that he has run across, or buried somewhere; the fifth, 

 "Waving [Fire]" (Yoshjiuma), referring to the belief of the Hopis that 

 the " Skeleton " goes round during the night, occasionally swinging or 

 waving a spark of fire. The reason why this name refers to the Skeleton 

 clan, though the name-giver properly belongs to the Coyote clan, is that 

 these clans are related to each other. Another interval took place, in 

 which the grandmother held the child, calling it by the name she had 

 given it, and playing with it. By and by a sixth woman, an old grand- 

 mother, came in. She is probably the oldest of the Coyote clan, and the 

 members of that clan call her their C6a (old woman, ancestor, etc.). She 

 gave it the name of "Juniper-Nodule" (Hdplo, from h6p6lo), referring 

 probably to the berries, but sometimes also to nodules growing over 

 places where branches or twigs have broken off. Finally a seventh woman 

 bkthed it, and gave it the name Homihepn6ma.f She handed the child 

 to the grandmother again, who rubbed its face with a little corn-meal, 

 which, by the way, she did after each bathing. 



By this time all the women, except the grandmother, left. 



The step-sister of the little baby was grinding a handful of corn- 

 meal, which she brought in and placed in a bowl, from which the grand- 

 mother had been using corn-meal. 



At a quarter to six the mother and grandmother got ready for the 



•During the twenty days preceding, little girl babie* are sometimes rubbed with a Icind 

 of clay called "baby ashes" (tipdshqotcro), which is said to be of a pinkish color. 



♦ For further information on Hopi names, their meaning, etc., see " Hopi Proper Names," by 

 H. K. Voth. Anth. Ser.. Vol. VI No. 3. 



