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blue yarn bandoleer was tied on each arm partly hiding the upper 

 white paint band. He next took a bowl containing a liquid black 

 paint and with it colored the chin black from the mouth to the lower 

 border of the ears, carrying the paint downward only to the curve of 

 the jaw. He then took a piece of yucca leaf and daubed it in 

 the liquid paint and passed it around over the lower tip of the upper 

 lip from the lower border of one ear to the other, thus restricting and 

 making more prominent the blackened lower part of the face. He 

 next loosened her hair whorls, as ordinarily worn by the manas, and tied 

 her hair loosely behind at her neck with a string. To the front locks 

 he tied a nakwakwosi. She was now ready for the ceremony, sitting 

 down to await the completion of the costuming of Choshnimtiwa. 



Lomanakshu also had a bowl with white liquid paint (kaolin), and 

 with it he painted Choshnimtiwa's arm, from the elbow to the wrist, a 

 solid band of white. He also painted each breast from the corner of 

 the breast-bone to the summit of the shoulder, and from there 

 down to near the base of the breast-bone, thus forming a sort of 

 triangle on each breast, the lower corners of which were continued by 

 two white lines down to the level of the nipples. The shoulder corner 

 of the triangle was also extended down on the arm nearly to the elbow 

 by means of two parallel white lines at a distance of about an inch. 

 He next painted the face black from the tip of the upper lip back to 

 the lower border of the ears down to the beginning of the neck, which 

 he outlined and vivified by using a yucca leaf, as did Polihungwa. 

 About the knees he drew two bands around the legs and painted 

 the lower leg also white from about the middle to the toes of 

 the feet. In his hair he fastened a nakwakwosi and a bunch of 

 eagle breath feathers, and around his neck he placed many strands 

 of beads. About the waist was passed an ordinary katcina kilt which 

 was fastened on the right side, and over the upper border of this was 

 placed the regular katcina sash, which was tied in a single knot on 

 the right side, the fringed ends hanging down nearly to the ground. 

 To the right wrist he fastened a strand of blue yarn. Lomanakshu 

 now took from the bag which he had brought in with him when he 

 entered the kiva with Choshnimtiwa, and which he had deposited 

 near the iiponi, a snake about two feet long which he handed to 

 Choshnimtiwa and led him to the back of the kiva, where he also 

 handed him the northwest corner tiponi. With the snake held by its 

 middle in his right hand, which dropped by his side, and with the 

 iiponi held by its base in his left hand, which was drawn up in front 

 of his body, and with the long feathers of the tiponi extending up to 

 his shoulders, Choshnimtiwa took his place at the back of and a little to 



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