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them in a bundle by wrapping a string around them spirally from end 

 to end and hung them up on a peg on the wall. 



Sikangpu now took a small red medicine bowl which he half 

 filled with water from a jar brought in by Sikanakpu, and, taking the 

 medicine bowl with him and sitting down near the fireplace, he filled 

 a pipe with native tobacco, lighted it with a coal, began stirring the 

 water in the bowl with an aspergil {jnakwanpi), and smoked into the 

 bowl with his mouth close to the water. After smoking into the bowl 

 for some time he laid aside the pipe and spat into the bowl. Again 

 he stirred the water with the aspergil, which he then laid across the 

 mouth of the jar. He now resumed smoking, blowing puffs of smoke 

 in the direction of the mosaic. He did this four times, remaining in 

 his sitting posture on the west side of the mosaic and at the south- 

 west corner. 



Polihungwa now began fashioning with his hands from the clay 

 which the boys had kneaded small conical pedestals about an inch 

 and a half in diameter at the base and about two inches in height. 

 Of these he made twenty-one. Sikanakpu, still maintaining his sit- 

 ting posture at the soutwest corner of the kiva, now took up the 

 aspergil and asperged four times toward the mosaic and then 

 deposited the bowl at the southwest corner of the sand picture. This 

 was the beginning of the erection of the altar, which was now rapidly 

 pushed forward. Namurztiwa had long since returned, bringing with 

 him a mongnnkuru containing water and an armful of cottonwood 

 boughs still retaining their twigs and leaves. These he had placed to 

 the east of the sand picture in the northeast corner of the kiva. Sik- 

 anakpu now selected from the bunch a single stem about sixteen 

 inches in length and with it made a wreath Avhich he placed under the 

 medicine bowl. The medicine bowl itself, it may be here remarked, 

 was dull reddish in color without visible decoration, about six inches 

 in diameter and was not provided with a handle. On inquiring of the 

 priest if this was the original bowl for this ceremony, the reply was 

 that the flat, squarish bowl with a rain cloud terrace on each side, 

 which is the usual medicine bowl of Hopi ceremonies, had probably 

 long ago been broken and replaced by this more simple bowl. At 

 any rate, this was the only medicine bowl which he, the chief priest, 

 had ever known for this ceremony. Polihungwa now began to place 

 in the small clay pedestals which he had just finished making the 

 uprights {ngolosJioyas, crooks), which he now deposited on two sides 

 of the sand picture. After having placed them in position on the outer 

 white earth border of the mosaic and divided in two single rows with 

 twelve on the east side and eleven on the west side of the sand 



