Nov., 1903. Oraibi Summer Snake Ceremony — Voth. 275 



1— BAHOLAWU OF 1896. 



This took place on August 2d. Early in the morning of that day 

 the following men assembled in the house which is considered as the 

 ancestral home of the Antelope Fraternity, or rather of the Kohkang 

 Wiihti (Spider Woman) clan (see A, PI. 152): 



Tobdngotiwa, Chief Antelope priest. 



Sihongwa, Antelope member. 



Kiwanhoya, Antelope member. 



Mokahtiwa, Antelope member. 



Macangontiwa, Chief Snake priest. 



PQhiinomtiwa, Snake member. 



Nuwakwahu, Snake member, 



Sikahongniwa, Snake memb'er. 

 The place where the priests assembled was a room in the second 

 story of the house. The two chief priests brought with them some 

 pipes, tobacco, plume boxes, sticks, paint, and twine for making bahos, 

 corn-meal, etc. Some of the men also brought some meal and feath- 

 ers. All first smoked a while and then went to making bahos and 

 nakwakwosis. Of these the following were made, as far as I could 

 ascertain: 



1. By the Chief Antelope priest: Four double, green bahos; four 

 nakwdkwosis, stained red; and one pflhu. 



2. By the Chief Snake priest: Three double, green bahos; four 

 nakwakwosis, stained red; and one pdhu, stained yellow. 



3. By the other men: Six nakwakwosis by each man. 



As soon as these prayer offerings were finished they were placed 

 on a tray and then all smoked, blowing the smoke towards the tray, 

 A considerable quantity of sacred meal was then put on the prayer 

 offerings, whereupon they were deposited at various places. I could, 

 of course, only go with one party, but was — reliably, I believe — 

 informed that these prayer offerings were disposed of as follows : The 

 Snake priest sent one man north to the shrine of Achamali "and one 

 man to an unidentified place west of the village; each messenger 

 taking with him one of the chief priest's bdhos and one nakwdkwosi 

 from each man. The Antelope chief priest sent one man to Ldnva,' a 

 large spring west of the village, another out to the east side of the 

 village, each man taking one of his (the chief priest's) bdhos and also 

 a nakwdkwosi from each man. The Chief Antelope priest, who is a 

 member of the Kdhkang Wiihti (Spider Woman) clan, takes his 

 remaining bdho, the four red nakwdkwosis, the road, and one nakwdk- 



* The Flute Society also have extensive ceremonies at the spring during their ceremonies. 



