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FIFTH CEREMONIAL DAY. 



(NAl6sH TALA; four TIMES LIGHT OR DAY.) 

 1. -GENERAL REMARKS. 



With this day the ceremonies become more comprehensive and 

 complicated, especially in the Antelope kiva. In fact, while up to 

 this date our attention has been chiefly occupied by the Snake kiva, 

 it will from this day be principally directed to the Antelope kiva, with 

 the exception, perhaps, of the last day, on which the events in both 

 kivas are probably of equal importance. 



At about half-past four o'clock in the morning a new ndtsi is put 

 up at each kiva, the whip natsis, however, remaining as before. (See PL 

 160.) A new corn-meal circle is sprinkled around both kivas by the re- 

 spective chief priests, in order, I was told, to keep out intruders. The 

 new natsi is called aoat (bow) natsi and consists of an old bow to the 

 string of which is fastened a so-called "tawahona." A tawahona is a 

 string to which many small bunches of red horsehair are tied. To this 

 string are also tied some weasel and polecat, or skunk, skins and 

 some bald eagle feathers. The two natsis at the two kivas are essen- 

 tially alike. After the natsis have been put up the two chief priests 

 go into their respective kivas and smoke. After the smoke the Ante- 

 lope chief gets the paraphernalia for the Antelope altar, which are 

 wrapped up in bundles, and places them on the floor at the north end 

 of the kiva, whereupon he begins to make bahos. It is then about 

 live o'clock in the forenoon. More men come in this day, especially 

 in the Antelope kiva. One of the first acts of a new-comer is to 

 sprinkle a pinch of meal on the altar, if it be already put up; if not, 

 this is dispensed with. He then usually loosens his hair, takes off his 

 moccasins — sometimes also his clothes — and then squats down at the 

 fireplace and smokes. 



2.— PROCEEDINGS IN THE SNAKE KIVA IN 1896. 



At the usual time, about five o'clock in the morning, the Chief 

 Snake priest proceeded to the Antelope kiva for the usual morning 

 smoke with the Antelope chief, whereupon he returned to the Snake 

 kiva, where breakfast soon followed. The other men were engaged 

 in repairing moccasins, snake whips, and snake bags; in making new 

 moccasins and nakwakwosis; smoking, carding and spinning of cotton, 

 etc., all of which was continued with more or less regularity through- 

 out the day. Soon after breakfast, the Antelope priest, Lomayesh- 

 tiwa, who afterwards made the sand mosaic in the Antelope kiva, 



