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at right angles near the center, placing in the fold some cornmeal^ 

 and then twisted several times the loose ends of the husk. He then 

 broke off square the loose ends of the husk, thus forming a long 

 narrow pyramidal-shaped packet called mociata. Sikanakpu now left 

 the kiva and soon returned, bringing with him his plume box and 

 there assisting from time to time in the manufacture of the bahos 

 when not otherwise engaged upon the sand painting. Polihungwa 

 then cut a facet on two of the green black-pointed sticks, and taking 

 up one with a facet and one without he fastened the two together, 

 side by side, by means of several wrappings of a cotton string, about 

 two-thirds of the way down on the length of the sticks toward the 

 black point. Just under these wrappings which bound the two sticks 

 together he placed the corn-husk packet, so that it was securely 

 fastened to the two sticks, with its pointed end projecting upwards. 

 To the other side of the two sticks he fastened an eagle breath 

 feather, a turkey feather and a sprig of kuna and maovi Over the 

 sharp point of the corn-husk packet he fastened a nakwakwosi con- 

 sistmg of a three-mch cotton string, to the end of which was attached- 

 an eagle breath feather and a chat feather. Of these green or sakiva '" 

 bahos he made four. He then took up the four black sticks, one after 

 the other, and fastened to the upper or square end, by means of sev- 

 eral wrappings of a cotton string, a turkey feather and a sprig of 

 kuna, together with the small corn-husk packet, the upper and pointed 

 end of which extended beyond the end of the stick. Around this ■ 

 corn-husk packet and to the middle, after the manner previously 

 described, he fastened an eagle nakwakwosi. Of these black bahos or 

 cJiochopiata he made four. He next made eight nakwakwosis which 

 he stained red, and six which remained white. Next he made four of 

 the so-called four-direction bahos, each five inches in length, and to 

 each of which he attached two nakwakwosis. These bahos consisted 

 of a single corticated cottonwood branch about four inches in length, 

 to the upper end of which, at an interval of about an inch, were fast- 

 ened two nakwakwosis. The shafts were painted green. These bahos 

 were the same as were made on the preceding morning, another set 

 being made on the following day and again on the day following that. 

 These are the* bahos which were taken into the fields by the priests, 

 the first one leaving the kiva going to the north, the second to the 

 west, the third to the south and the fourth to the east. These bahos 

 having been finished, Polihungwa left the kiva and soon returned 

 with a bundle of twenty or thirty slender cottonwood boughs about 

 three feet in length. He sat down on the east side of the platform 

 and began decorticating the boughs. While he was engaged in this 



