Nov., 1903. Oraibi Summer Snake Ceremony — Voth. 295 



kivas is again the mutual smoking of the two chief priests in the morn- 

 ing and in the evening. Some notes on facts of perhaps minor inter- 

 est, specially noticed, are the following: 



1. Watching one of the new-comers in the Snake kiva particularly, 

 I noticed that, after having smoked, he made four nakwakwosis, stain- 

 ing them red, and one pflhu, fixed up a snake whip, tying two long 

 buzzard feathers to the two sticks and a red nakwdkwosi to the tip of 

 each feather, and then laid these objects on the floor and silently 

 smoked over them. 



2. The kilt of the smaller boys is usually the so-called "soq6mvit 

 kuna" (black kilt), which is the first kilt worn by boys. It is of a dark 

 blue color, with a black circle in the lower corners. (See B, PI. 177). 



3. Some more shipwikas were gotten on one occasion on the 

 morning of this day. 



4. The number of red nakwakwosis made for the snake hunt 

 varies with the different priests, some made four, some six, etc. It 

 seems that pdhus are made only by some. Not every one makes 

 nakwakwosis every day; if those of the previous day have not all been 

 used up, they are taken again. The ptihus, I am told, are not used 

 until the hunters are ready to return to the village in the evening, and 

 so it is probable that only one of a certain party has a pflhu, though 

 it may be that each one has one. They are said to be laid on the 

 ground as a prayer for a safe return. This, however, has not been 

 personally observed, and needs further investigation! 



5. Special notice was again taken of the body decoration of the 

 Snake men; it is as follows: Spots of about the size of a hand were 

 made with a pale red or pinkish clay on the following parts of the 

 body: both upper and lower legs (on the outside), both upper and 

 lower arms (outside) each side of the sternum and the spine, the fore- 

 head, and the hair in front and on both sides of the head. 



6. Every new-comer ties a nakwakwosi into his hair before start- 

 ing on the snake hunt. This nakwakwosi does not differ from those 

 taken on the snake hunts. Such a head feather is worn in nearly all 

 Hopi ceremonies, and is called ndkwa (wish, prayer). 



