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went at once to the corner where the snake jars were kept, and with- 

 out any formality whatever Choshnimtiv.a untied the bag and shook 

 it, when the little boy picked up a rattlesnake just as it came from 

 the bag and thrust it into the jar as on other occasions. The Chief 

 Snake priest continued his work of the manufacture of a pair of 

 moccasins on the platform and apparently took no heed of this trans- 

 fer. At this particular time he happened to be pounding a heavy piece 

 of rawhide upon the floor by. means of a rough undressed piece of 

 stone. The work of baho-making continued in the Antelope kiva, 

 Shakventiwa grinding red paint on the paint mortar. Sikangpu took 

 some water from the medicine bowl with which he moistened his 

 black pigment. Having prepared a quantity of red paint Shakventiwa 

 passed it over to Polihungwa. Polihungwa now took one baho stick 

 painted entirely green except for a yellowish-brown facet, and one 

 blunt-pointed baho stick painted yellowish brown, and with the addi- 

 tion of the corn-husk packet containing meal and nakvvakwosis, a 

 turkey feather and a sprig of mdovi and kui'ia, made the first baho. 

 Of these he made two, one to be deposited by Namurztiwa at the race 

 the next morning, the other to be handed to the winner, and then 

 two single blunt-pointed shafts painted black, and taking the corn- 

 husk packet, mdovi, kufia, turkey feather and a nakwakwosi, he made 

 one, Shakventiwa and Sikangpu also each making one, all to be depos- 

 ited by Namurztiwa at Chokitchmo, where the race starts the next morn- 

 ing. . He then picked up the chockopkiata, painting four black bands at 

 intervals around the white yarn which bound the accessories of the bahos 

 in place near its upper end. The Antelope priests continued their man- 

 ufacture of bahos until shortly after three o'clock, when they stopped 

 work and, food having been brought into the kiva by some of the 

 younger priests, they repaired to the platform and began eating. At 

 the conclusion of the meal, Sikangpu, sitting down to the east of the 

 fireplace on the main floor of the kiva, began cutting the cottonwood 

 boughs into small sections about one inch in length. Having cut 

 perhaps fifty of these and placed them in the yucca fiber sieve, which 

 had been brought in in the forenoon and in which he now placed 

 clay and water, stirring them up, he soon had the cylinders {kok/io, 

 "woods" or "sticks,") coated with clay. He then placed the tray 

 on the southeast corner of the mosaic. Polihungwa had now com- 

 pleted four single green bahos with double nakwakwosi attachments, 

 four red nakwakwosis, four black chochopkiatas^ four red and green 

 bahos and two small rings about two inches in diameter, to each side 

 of which were fastened a small eagle wing feather. The baho-making 

 was now practically completed for the day, whereupon Sikangpu care- 



