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stopped at the Lomowa spring. Namiirztiwa entered the spring and 

 deposited a nakwakwosi, upon which he sprinkled meal, and then with 

 his thumb and forefinger sprinkled water four times to the rising sun. 

 'He then took the mongwikuru from the youth, filled it with water, 

 uttered a prayer over it and returned it to the youth. He then took a 

 handful of moist clay from under a rock on the edge of the spring and 

 put it on a sandstone, which he picked up to take with him. The four 

 men then started on a run along the trail and went to the Shokitshmo 

 (Fingernail hill) shrine, southeast of the village (See PI. CIV, b). 

 Here Namurztiwa took a pinch of meal, and holding it to his lips 

 breathed upon it a prayer, and then on the trail made two straight 

 lines, crossing at right angles. He then deposited the seven bahos in 

 the shrine, in front of which, with meal, he made three semicircular 

 cloud symbols, two being in a row and the other being above and be- 

 tween the first two. He then drew a straight line with meal, con- 

 necting the tips of the two lower symbols. From their outer edges 

 and the intersecting point of the two, he drew now three straight 

 parallel lines about four feet in length, the diameter of the twO' cloud 

 symbols lying side by side being about three feet. At the meeting 

 point of the central straight line with the other straight line connect- 

 ing the tips of the two cloud symbols, he placed the small black 

 wheel, upon which he deposited the mongtuikuru (see PI. C, />). 

 To the left and just beyond the cloud symbols, he placed the flat 

 stone with the mud which he had brought from the spring. The bull 

 roarers and lightning frames were now taken from the Kalehtakas and 

 deposited in the center of the upper cloud symbol. On the center 

 one of the three parallel lines he placed two nakwakwosis, which he 

 sprinkled Avith meal. He now uttered a prayer over the symbols and 

 then the priests retraced their course about forty paces along the trail 

 toward the village, where Namurztiwa made another cloud symbol and 

 again deposited two nakwakwosis on the middle line. Again he pro- 

 ceeded toward the village to the extent of about sixty paces and made 

 another set of cloud symbols, upon the middle line of which he 

 deposited three nakwakwosis, which he sprinkled with meal. Starting 

 again toward the village he halted, after passing about sixty-five 

 paces, and made a fourth set of cloud symbols, upon which he 

 deposited four nakwakwosis. It was now twenty minutes past five. 



Namurztiwa now retraced his steps to the first series of cloud 

 symbols. Here, the naked men who have been mentioned as having 

 left the village, now began to arrive. By a quarter of six they had all 

 arrived, and lining up just beyond the shrine, those of them who 

 Avore shirts removed them and tied them a^ound their waists (see 



