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careful to select a sack whrch was in perfect condition. To each one 

 of the priests was then handed by Lomanakshu a snake whip and a 

 small bag containing meal. 



It will be noticed that the snakes which had been brought in after 

 the first day's hunt to the north, as well as the snake which had been 

 brought in the sleeve on the previous night and the one brought in 

 early this morning, were still lying by the side of and to the east of the 

 snake whips, and it seemed at this time as though the snakes were 

 not to be transferred to the receptacles which had been provided for 

 them early in the morning until the return of the priests that night. 

 This seemed all the more probable as the men were apparently ready 

 to leave the kiva. The writer, desiring to follow them on the hunt, 

 had occasion to leave the kiva in order to secure a camera. But upon 

 his entering the kiva after the men had departed, later in the day, it was 

 found the snakes had been transferred. In other words, the Snake 

 men, although seemingly willing to permit of our observing all the 

 details of the ceremony, had not yet brought themselves to the point 

 of permitting us to witness the transferring of the snakes. It was 

 noted on this return that both jar and box had been sprinkled with 

 meal. . 



Lomanakshu leading the way, the Snake priests filed out of the 

 kiva, where each one took up his digging stick, which had either been 

 there from the night before or had been brought with him and there 

 deposited that morning; some of them had also provided them- 

 selves with bent rabbit sticks. Still with Lomanakshu in the lead 

 they started off at a brisk pace toward the west on the second 

 day's ceremonial hunt. Taking the trail just south of the kiva 

 leading down into the first terrace they passed on toward the 

 west along the ledge until they came to the Shipaulovi trail where 

 they descended down the mesa making straight for Toreva spring. 

 Here they filed around on the west side of the spring. The better to 

 understand what followed it will be necessary to say a word concern- 

 ing the approaches leading down to the water (see PI. LXXXVI). 

 The spring may be approached from either the east or the west side, 

 where a descending path supported by a wall of stone laid in courses 

 leads to the first terrace. Here again two diagonally opposite paths 

 similarly constructed lead to the second terrace, where again paths 

 lead to the third terrace, the terraces of course decreasing in size 

 downward. The surface of the water surrounded by the third terrace 

 is about twenty feet in diameter. The outlet of the spring is to the 

 south where it is bridged at the second terrace by a rough hewn plank. 

 On the north side of the spring stands a large rock which in height is 



