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Preparations were in the mean while also made to decorate the 

 Antelope youth and Antelope maid. The latter seated herself on the 

 banquette in the extreme south-east corner of the deeper portion of 

 the kiva. Sihongwa painted her up. He daubed her hands and feet 

 with dtima (white kaolin), her chin grayish black,' and then drew a jet- 

 black line over her upper lip, from ear to ear. 



After Sihongwa was through, Lomayeshtiwa dressed up the mana 

 as follows: First he placed around her, in the form of a dress, the 

 large ceremonial blanket, ttiihi. Around this, on the upper part of her 

 body, he fastened a pitkuna, the kilt commonly used by the men in 

 ceremonies and Katcina dances. Around her waist he tied a wokok- 

 wawa ("big belt") with knotted fringes. This belt is one of the 

 objects in a bridal costume. To the belt he fastened a bell (on the 

 right side of her body). In her ears she wore the so-called ttioynahkas 

 (small, square, thin blocks of wood inlaid with turquoise) and around 

 her neck many strands of white and red beads to which an abalone 

 shell was attached. Her hair was then combed by Sihongwa and it 

 hung down loosely behind. A small white eagle feather was tied to 

 her scalplock on the apex of her head. Finally, Sihongwa placed a 

 drop of honey into the mouth of the mana. 



Old Mokahtivva, who was to act as Antelope youth, was deco- 

 rated by Sihongwa as follows: The hands and feet were painted white, 

 a black line ran from ear to ear over the upper lip. The chin, a spot 

 in each hand and on the sole of each foot, two short lines on each side of 

 the sternum, on each side of the spine, on each lower leg, and each 

 lower arm, all were painted grayish black. White dotted lines were 

 running from the thumbs upward along the inside of the arms to the 

 shoulders, and then down on each side over the chest along the front 

 of each leg to the tip of the big toes. Similar dotted lines commenced 

 on the back of the hands and ran along the outside of the arms, up 

 to the shoulders, down on each side of the back, along the back side of 

 the legs to the heels. Mokahtiwa then dressed himself up as follows: 

 Around the waist he tied the usual ceremonial kilt (pitkuna) and sash 

 (mochapmonkwawa) with a foxskin (sikdhtaypuka), suspended from 

 the sash behind. Over the right shoulder he hung a bandoleer of blue 

 yarn and a strand of the same material he tied around his left leg ^ 

 below the knee. Around the ankles he wore figured ankle bands and 

 in the ears, red and green turquoise beads. To the back of the head he 

 fastened a bunch of white eagle feathers, to the front of the head a 



' This black stuff is called " B&hckwa," " water-blue," and is the bluish black, slimy, rot- 

 ten dirt found in springs that have not been cleaned out for some time. 



* In igco, around both legs. 



