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operation Namurztivva left the kiva for a moment, and on his return 

 put on his shirt and waited at the side of Polihungwa. The latter 

 took a small bag from a niche in the kiva wall and going over to the 

 center of the floor tilled the bag about half full with meal from the 

 tray, and then he took up a double green baho, one puhtavi and a 

 vessel similar to the mon^wikurus but somewhat larger. Polihungwa 

 then addressed Namurztiwa and handed him the meal, the bahos, etc. 

 He answered " Owe'' (Yes) and left the kiva. 



He was followed as he went along the trail to the west of Mish- 

 ongnovi, where, at the foot of the mesa, he came to the shrine of 

 Kohkangwuhti (the Spider Woman). Here he took the nakwakwosis 

 and some meal in his hand, and, holding them close to his lips, 

 uttered the following short prayer: "You I have pity on us. Keep 

 away the storms. Send us rain. Keep sickness from us. May we 

 be strong. May we be happy." He then deposited the nakwakwosi, 

 consisting of an eagle and a chat feather, sprinkled it with meal four 

 times, and then deposited his baho. He now filled the mo7igivikuru 

 and returned to the kiva. 



In the meantime Polihungwa had resumed decorticating the cotton- 

 wood boughs. Ceasing in his work for a moment, he addressed the 

 three boys, who now went out entirely naked, carrying with them under 

 their arms their old loin cloths. Soon one of the boys returned 

 empty handed, while the two others brought in, wrapped in their loin 

 cloths, a kind of yellowish, granulated, shally clay. They were told 

 by the chief to put it down on the platform in a pile to the west 

 of the ladder. One of the boys then went out after water, w^hile 

 the other began to reduce the clay by pounding and kneading it with 

 a stone hammer. The other boy now returned with the water, which 

 was added a little at a time to the clay, and both beg.an to knead and 

 work over the mass. Having kneaded the clay sufficiently, the three 

 boys left the kiva. It was now about a quarter of three o'clock, and 

 the other priests, as has been described, were still at work on the sand 

 mosaic. Polihungwa here left the kiva, taking with him fourteen of 

 the decorticated boughs, which he deposited on the kiva hatchwav, 

 presumably, that they might be dried out by the rays of the afternoon 

 sun, and soon returned with a fresh bag of native tobaccb, from which 

 he filled a pipe, and lighting it with a coal which one of the boys now 

 brought in, he sat down to the northeast of the fireplace and smoked 

 for soma minutes in silence. Having finished his smoke, he brought 

 into the kiva the decorticated shafts which had been drying on the 

 outside, and, after carefully straightening each one of them out by 

 working them back and forth through his two hands, he carefully tied 



