242 FiKLD Columbian Museum— Anthropology, Vol. III. 



Ninth Day (Tikiyk, Dancing Day) August 21. 



The singing of the eight traditional songs took place as usual 

 and at the accustomed hour this morning in the Antelope kiva. It 

 was noticed that not only the members within both the Antelope and 

 the Snake kivas had this morning washed their heads m yucca suds and 

 besmeared their faces with red paint, but that many others in the 

 village had also washed their heads, Polihungwa had deposited two 

 snake rattles on the altar, one at the northeast, the other at the 

 northwest corner of the mosaic. During the singing of the songs 

 the naked, barefooted men had, as on the previous morning, been 

 departing, one at a time, down the side of the mesa to a point in the 

 distant plain toward the east, where the start for the race was to be 

 made this morning as before. The race on this day is referred to as 

 the Snake race, although Polihungwa claims that it is simply called 

 yulitukngwu (race), the same as the one on the previous day. 



During this time also the small boys and girls of the village 

 began to assemble on the lower terrace, getting ready for the 

 scramble when the girls were to wrest the cornstalks from the boys' 

 hands as on the previous morning. The animation throughout the 

 village was much greater than it was on the preceding morning, and 

 down on the ledge were, in addition to the children, many adults, in 

 which crowd old women predominated. The girls who were to 

 scramble with the boys had in some instances the small red-and-white 

 blankets, but were not painted. The costume of the larger boys was 

 very simple and consisted of a sakwavitkuna only. They, as well as the 

 smaller boys, had white bands around the vipper and lower limbs and 

 body; their hands, feet and faces were also daubed white. 



It is necessary now to return to the Antelope kiva for the con- 

 clusion of the singing ceremony where certain features not described 

 for the ceremony on the previous morning may be noted (see PI. 

 CXXII). During one of the songs Namurztiwa left the kiva with 

 a green and red baho and a single green baho to which were attached 

 two nakwakwosis. These were given him by one of the priests and 

 were deposited in a shrine (see PI. CXXIII). An incident now 

 occurred which perhaps is worthy of notice, inasmuch as it reveals a 

 certain prescribed formality in regard to the removal from the kiva 

 of certain objects. One of the chiefs, Shakventiwa, started to take 

 from the kiva an old rabbit-skin rope and was about to ascend the 

 ladder when he was spoken to by Sikangpu, whereupon he returned 

 and Sikangpu sprinkled a pinch of meal on it from the meal tray; he 

 was then permitted to depart. There were now in the kiva the fol- 

 lowing priests: Lomanakshu, Polihungwa, Sikangpu and Sikanakpu. 



