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long and two about four and a half inches long, all female. A 

 chochokpi is a single black stick pointed at one end and having a facet 

 at the other end. To the latter end are usually tied a sprig of kdna 

 (artemisia tridentata angustifolia), a sprig of maovi (Guetieriza Eutha- 

 mia), a turkey feather, and a corn-husk packet containing corn-meal, 

 into which a little honey is mixed. All this is tied to the stick with 

 twine, which is wrapped around the stick to the width of about an 

 inch and a half and then usually black bands are painted on this white 

 twine, but sometimes as in this case, the white bands are painted red. 



While these prayer offerings were made, Kiwanhoya, who was to 

 act as sprinkler during the ceremony, brought into the kiva four 

 mongwikurus (small gourd vessels, covered with a network of twine) 

 (see PI. 184) and a ngahkuychakapta (medicine bowl), six corn-ears of 

 as many different colors, and a few other paraphernalia to be used in 

 connection with the medicine bowl. (See PI. 198.) 



Another man, Lomayeshtiwa, who was to take an important part 

 in the proceedings of this day, came in at about this time, smoked 

 first, and then commenced tying nakwakwosis to the bent end of a 

 number of crooks to be used on the altar about to be erected. 

 Tobengotiwa had in the mean while made a few nakwakwosis which he 

 handed to Lomayeshtiwa with the instruction to give them to a man 

 that was to go after sand for the altar. This sand is supposed to be 

 gotten for any Hopi altar by a man who belongs to the sand clan, or at 

 least to some clan related to the sand clan. As in this case no such 

 man happened to be among the participants of the ceremony, they 

 agreed upon a man who otherwise had nothing to do with the cere- 

 mony. This sand is generally gotten from a sand hill south-east of the 

 village and half-way down the mesa. The party who gets the sand 

 holds the meal and nakwakwosis to his lips, utters a silent prayer, lays 

 both objects on the ground, and then takes the sand into his blanket 

 and returns to the kiva. 



After having dispatched this messenger, Lomayeshtiwa washed his 

 head, dried his hair at the fireplace, and then proceeded to the Snake 

 kiva, where he smoked and announced the singing ceremony that was 

 to take place in the Antelope kiva, as has already been mentioned. 

 Upon his return from the Snake kiva he at once commenced to build the 

 altar. (See PI. 162.) First he made a sand ridge on the floor in the north 

 end of the kiva of the moist sand that Nakwaveima had in the mean 

 while brought in. This sand ridge is about three feet long, eight or nine 

 inches wide, and about five inches high. In the center, but on the 

 north side of this ridge, he made a depression, into which he placed a 

 rectangular medicine bowl (see PI. 163), filling up the space around it 



