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small boys wore blue kilts {sakwavitkuna) only, having no sash, while 

 two of the other boys wore only a black kilt [sdqdnwitkund). The 

 costume of Polihungwa, the Chief Antelope priest, differed only from 

 that of the priests above described in his having blue leather arm 

 bands just above the elbows, to each of which was tied a hawk 

 feather and under which and extending backward were thrust several 

 similar branches of cottonwood. Lomayungwai, the priest who was 

 afterward to dance on the plaza with the bundle of vines in his mouth, 

 also wore a cottonwood wreath around his forehead. The asperger, 

 Sikanakpu, wore around his head and arms a cottonwood wreath 

 and a bunch of fluffy white feathers on his head, while the four 

 owners of the mongwikurus, Shakhungwa, Namurztiwa, Qomaletstiwa, 

 Lomashihkuiwa, and Lomawungyai wore on their heads a thick clus- 

 ter of white fluffy feathers and parrot feathers. All the other thirteen 

 priests, including the chief and assistant chief priests, wore a similar 

 headdress stained red, but without the addition of the parrot feathers. 

 Polihungwa now left the Antelope kiva and inquired down the 

 hatchway of the kiva if the Snake men were ready. He received an 

 affirmative reply and returned to his kiva. He now took up his 

 tiponi from the northwest corner of the altar, which he held by its 

 base in his left hand which rested against his body, and in his right 

 hand he took up a rattle (see PI. CXVI); the assistant chief priest, 

 Shakventiwa, took up the other tiponi and a rattle (see PI. CXVH). 

 Sikanakpu, the asperger, now took his medicine bowl with its cotton- 

 wood wreath, holding it in his left hand, with a rattle in his right 

 (see PI. CXVni). All the other priests had provided themselves 

 with two rattles each from the Antelope kiva except Shakhungwa (see 

 PI. CXIX), Namurztiwa, Qomaletstiwa and Lomashihkuiwa, who 

 took their mongwikurtis in one hafid and a rattle in the other. Loma- 

 wungyai took up the bundle of green corn and two \i\2.z\ichochopkiata- 

 The priests were now ready to depart and a moment later, at half- 

 past six o'clock, they filed out of the kiva one by one, those in front 

 of the line coming to a stop just outside until all had left the kiva. 

 They now stood for a minute, all rattling vigorously, and then set 

 out at a rapid, yet dignified, pace for the central plaza, which they 

 entered, passed along near the east wall until they reached the end c 

 the plaza on the north, when they turned back, describing an ellipti- 

 cal curve almost equal to the sides of the plaza. As they now 

 advanced on toward the east on the south side of the kiva they passed 

 in front of the kisi, where each man violently stamped each time with 

 his right foot upon the sipapu and deposited thereon a pinch of meal. 

 The line also passed the two shrines of Timanapvi and Bahoki, upon 



