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secting at right angles, extending the entire width of the surface. 

 From the upper extremity of the base projected many very long eagle 

 tail feathers, arranged in a circle, and from the tip of each feather 

 there hung an eagle breath feather (nakwakwosi) stained red. Within 

 the circle of eagle tail feathers and entirely concealed by them was a 

 handsome and finely polished jasper celt, yellow in color, and about 

 ten inches in length. The entire tiponi measured twenty-seven 

 inches in length from its base to the tip of the circle of feathers. 

 He then took up the 7nongivikurus and placed them on the south 

 white field at the base of the mosaic, first sprinkling the field with 

 meal, beginning on the west side. This side of the mosaic was now 

 entirely occupied by the medicine bowl with the tnakwanpi or asper- 

 gil resting in a cottonwood wreath on the southwest corner, with the 

 fourth mongwikuru on the southeast corner and the other three 

 mongavikurus placed at regular intervals between these two objects. 

 (See PI. XCV.) Sikanakpu now took up with the thumb and fore- 

 finger of his right hand a very small portion of meal from the sacred 

 meal tray and sprinkled it here and there over the entire mosaic. He 

 then took up another pinch of meal and breathing a prayer on it, 

 sprinkled the tiponis, standing on the center of the north side. He 

 then removed all objects from the north banquette, which he gently 

 swept with a short hand-broom. He then took up the jar {/>aini) 

 which Polihungwa had brought into the kiva on that afternoon along 

 with the medicine bowl and which up till now had been standing on 

 the floor of the kiva in the northeast corner. He then placed the jar 

 on the center of the banquette immediately behind the second or 

 reserved natsi, which he now placed lengthwise on the -north white 

 field of the mosaic and midway between the two tiponis. Turning 

 now to the eastern side of the kiva, he took up two bunches of reeds 

 about eight feet in height and two bunches of cottonwood boughs 

 about three feet in height. Of these he placed one bunch of the reeds 

 and one of the boughs so that it rested on the floor of the kiva and 

 reclined against the banquette and the north wall of the kiva just 

 bfehind and a little to the left of the tiponi in the northwest corner of 

 the mosaic. The other two bunches of reeds and cottonwood boughs 

 he sat up against the banquette and the wall of the kiva in a' corre- 

 sponding position east of the northeast tiponi. The tray containing 

 the sacred meal and one nakwakwosi was now moved up closer to the 

 mosaic and had a position just behind and about a foot from the sec- 

 ond mongwikuru. The other bahos had been placed in an Oraibi 

 tray and were placed by the side of the first trdy and just behind 

 the medicine tray. The erection of the altar and the accompany- 



