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Hence that many days may we live not having any trouble with each 

 other. Thus some chiet may pity us with some dropping rain. On 

 (by) that we shall subsist. Being concerned that they may subsist 

 they shall live. May all the people live happily, strongly, or encour- 

 aged.' 



II -BAHOLAWU OF 1898. 



This preliminary ceremony took place on August 5th, sixteen 

 days before the public Snake ceremony, I was up in the village at 

 about four o'clock in the morning, but found all whom I expected to 

 participate in the ceremony still in bed. About three-quarters of an 

 hour later, however, the Chief Antelope priest, Tobengotiwa went to 

 the house of his niece, the ancestral home of the Spider clan. The 

 woman of the house had already cleared and swept an upper room in 

 which Tobengotiwa at once commenced to make bahos. About fifteen 

 minutes later the Chief Snake priest, Macdngontiwa, came in, took off 

 his moccasins, loosened his hair, and then also began to manufacture 

 bdhos. Soon other men came in, so that the following men partici- 

 pated: 



Tobengotiwa, Chief Antelope priest. 

 Mokahtiwa, Antelope member. 



Kiwanhoya, Antelope member. 



Sihongwa, Antelope member. 



Yukioma, Antelope member. 



Macangontiwa, Chief Snake priest. 

 C6kaoma,^ Snake member. 



The position of these men during the ceremony is shown in the 

 following diagram: 



34 I. Yukioma, 



2**5 2. Sihongwa. 



* * 3- Kiwanhoya. 



o 4. Mokahtiwa. 



I Tray 6 5. Tobengotiwa. 



■ ' , * * 6. Macangontiwa. 



7 7. Ctikaoma. 



* 



While the two chief priests made bahos the others silently waited, 

 except Ctikaoma and Kiwanhoya, who also made one baho each. The 



' The peculiar construction of the sentences, and the fact that several of the words may meafi 

 different things and the first, second, or third person are the same, makes the last part of the speech 

 somewhat obscure, 



^'' 'Unfortunately this participant is not named in my notes, but my recollectfon is that it was 

 Cilkaoma. 



