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Surely okiwd! Now, then, thus being concerned with (occupied by) 

 this, being happy, being strong, all the people proceed towards 

 to-morrow (towards) mornings.^ Thus be it! 



The Antelope chief then hands the tiponi and meal to the Snake 

 chief, who goes through the same performance, first in front of the 

 novices, expressing there the same wish, and then at the northwest 

 corner of the altar, saying essentially the same words as the Antelope 

 priest. If the two differ at all it has not been ascertained just what 

 the variations are. When he has finished, the Snake chief hands back 

 to the Antelope chief the tiponi and the meal, sprinkles a pinch of 

 meal over the altar, picks up the snake bags and whips and leaves, the 

 other Snakes, including the Snake novice, following, each one also 

 sprinkling meal on the altar. At the foot of the ladder they stop, and 

 the chief priest says: "Pai itam hahlaikahkango, ookaokahkango, 

 tal6ongnawicni." Well, we happily, courageously, go (on) towards 

 the morning. 



While the Snakes file out to go to their own kiva the Antelopes 

 wait in silence, the chief still holding the tiponi, the girl the batni, 

 until the last Snake has left the kiva. All now sprinkle meal to the 

 altar and Tobengotiwa replaces the tiponi, first waving it a few inches 

 above the ground from the six directions towards the center of the 

 place on which it stands. Hereupon Sihongwa takes the ceremonial 

 costume from off the girl, while the Antelope youth disrobes himself. 

 Some one removes the nakwas from the scalplocks of the novices. 

 These as well as the two costumes are placed on the floor near the 

 altar. Sihongwa washes the hands and feet of the Antelope maid, but 

 her face she washes herself. The Antelope youth washes himself 

 except the marks on his back, which he cannot reach, and hence are 

 washed off by Sihongwa. 



The Antelope youth and maid then seat themselves on the ban- 

 quette east of the fireplace. The chief priest takes a black eagle wing 

 feather from the altar, steps in front of the two, hands to each a piece 

 of some root, probably hohoyaonga, which they chew, takes a pinch 

 of ashes from the fireplace and then hums in a low tone a song, beat- 

 ing time to the singing with the feather which he holds in his left hand. 

 Soon he waves the feather along the front part of the body to the 

 knees, first of the girl then of the man, circles the feather in front of 

 them a few times and then, turning towards the ladder, points the 

 feather towards the hatchway, sprinkles a small quantity of the ashes 

 along the feather and toward the hatchway. He then repeats the 



• In the morning the priest says: "towards the evening." Here not the cardinal points, but 

 the time of day is referred to. 



