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motion. She repeated this motion and the woman* went through the 

 same operation four times, instead of two. Both of the women then 

 took a pinch of meal from the tray and passing to the east side of the 

 mosaic sprinkled it. Sikangpu then asperged the mosaic, while 

 Shakventiwa took one of the bahos and one of the nakwakwosis and a 

 pinch of meal. This he handed to one of the Snake priests who now 

 entered and who left the kiva and, starting off on a run, went to 

 a shrine, where he thrust the baho in the sand at one corner of the 

 shrine, breathed a prayer on the meal, which he thereupon sprinkled 

 upon the baho, and going about five feet to the east of the shrine 

 deposited the nakwakwosi on the road, dropping meal upon it also. 

 This is the first of the messengers who were to depart to the four 

 world quarters bearing with them the baho and nakwakwosi to be 

 deposited in a shrine. It is customary for the Antelope priests to per- 

 form this office, but on account of the scarcity in number of the Ante- 

 lope priests they were assisted by the Snake men. Sikangpu now 

 left the kiva and returning in a moment brought an object which he 

 laid down near the fireplace and which Shakventiwa then picked up 

 and laid across the rim of two adjoining trays. 



As yesterday, so to-day, there is no ceremonial hunt, owing to 

 the Snake priests making repairs in their paraphernalia to be used 

 in the coming dance. Upon examining the Snake kiva from time to 

 time during this morning the Snake priest and one or two others were 

 found engaged in the manufacture of a pair of moccasins, others 

 smoking around the hearth or laughing on the platform. 



In the Antelope kiva Polihungwa continued his manufacture of 

 bahos, while Shakventiwa worked on the platform with some horsehair 

 skeins, making them ready for repairs of the bow, or aoatnatsi. Poli- 

 hungwa now left the kiva and soon returned bringing with him two 

 mortars for grinding paint; for this he used a short piece of yucca, the 

 blunt end of which he placed in his mouth and chewed, whereupon the 

 fibers became separated and it formed a fairly good brush with which 

 he soon began to paint his baho sticks. One of the priests now 

 left the kiva and returned with a gourd and loosely woven basket tray 

 or sifter of yucca fiber and a bunch of cottonwood branches, together 

 with one Middle Mesa tray. All these he deposited on the floor of 

 the kiva on the east side. 



At about half-past ten Choshnimtiwa and a small boy came in 

 from a short hunt at the foot of the mesa. Entering the kiva they 



*I understand that this woman formerly acted as Antelope maid, but now only looked after 

 the girl, putting up her hair, etc. We have analogies lor this in Oraibi. She is an ex-Antelore 

 maid. 



