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repeated the performance of the first Kalehtaka (see PI. CVIII and 

 CIX). 



During the depositing of the nakwakwosis and while the Kaleh- 

 taka had been performing, an interesting event had taken place on 

 the eastern end of this terrace. Immediately on the appearance of 

 the winner of the race, the boys who had been standing near by in a 

 group bearing corn husks started on a run, closely followed by the 

 girls. There then ensued a lively scramble for the cornstalks, which 

 were finally captured by the girls, who bore them to their homes. 



Namurztiwa and the two Kalehtakas had gone on up to the sum- 

 mit of the mesa where Namurztiwa entered the Antelope kiva, while 

 the two Kalehtakas remained just outside of the Antelope kiva and 

 shot their lightning frames to the north, to the west, to the south and 

 to the east, and then both twirled the bull roarers. They then went 

 to the Snake kiva and repeated the performance. Thereupon they 

 entered the Snake kiva and deposited the frames and roarers on a 

 basket tray. The pipes were now lighted by a number of the priests 

 who resumed a semicircular position about the hearth, whereupon 

 the first in the line took up the tray and smoked upon it four times, 

 when it was passed to the other priests, who smoked upon it in suc- 

 cession. The Kalehtakas at once began removing the paint from 

 their bodies and disrobed. 



When the winner of the race arrived at the kiva he stamped three 

 times with his right foot upon the hatchway. A moment later Poli- 

 hungwa ascended the ladder and took from him the ring and the mong- 

 wikuru (see PI. CXI, a and b). With this Polihungwa descended into 

 the kiva and placed the ring on the floor just between and behind the 

 first two mongwikurus on the south side of the mosaic. He now lighted 

 a pipe and placing his mouth close to the aperture in the mong- 

 wikuru smoked into it four times. He now passed the pipe to Loman- 

 akshu, the Chief Snake priest, exchanging, as he did so, terms of 

 relationship, whereupon the latter smoked into the mongwikuru four 

 times. Sikanakpu now took the pipe from Lomanakshu, smoked 

 four times into the mongwikuru, while Polihungwa took up a pinch of 

 ashes from the hearth and cast it in the four directions, beginning 

 with the north. He went toward the mosaic where he took up a red 

 and green baho. Lomanakshu in the meantime had taken up the 

 mongwikuru, and with a corn husk had dipped water from the medicine 

 bowl into the mongwikuru four times, when he took up a handful of 

 meal from the meal tray and upon this deposited the ring and the 

 mongtuikuru. These he now passed to Polihungwa, who held them 

 in his right hand together with a baho, holding his left hand 



