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panied by others, who carry corn-stalks. (See PI. 170.) The two 

 warriors are also usually among the first to arrive. Those of the 

 Snake and Antelope priests who have brought corn-stalks throw them 

 into the crowd and dash on towards the Antelope kiva, .which they 

 enter, taking their accustomed places. Events now crowd themselves 

 in front of the village and outside and inside the kiva, but will have 

 to be described one after the other, although they are coincidental. 



It has already been stated that the men and boys who have gone 

 after corn-stalks greet the racers at the foot of the mesa and follow 

 them. Having arrived at the top of the mesa, they form a squad and 

 approach the village (see PI. 171), being accompanied by the crowd of 

 spectators, among whom may be seen here and there a struggling 

 racer, who, however, runs on to the village. In front of the village 

 are crowds of women, girls, and children (see PI. 172), who await the 

 corn-stalk bearers, and as soon as the latter have arrived within about 

 one hundred yards, dash towards them and engage with them in a 

 pell-mell wrangle (see PI. 173), trying to snatch from them the 

 corn-stalks and also squash blossoms, in which they are generally 

 successful after a short struggle. If here and there a specially 

 strong or alert young man shows a tendency to be obstinate, he 

 is quickly pursued and surrounded by such numbers that his sur- 

 render is usually only a question of a few minutes. The captured corn- 

 stalks are triumphantly carried by the winners to their homes (see PI. 

 174), where they are often placed on corn piled up in the back rooms. 

 But proceed we now to the Antelope kiva, where in the mean while 

 important events have been in progress. We first turn our attention 

 to the winner of the race. Upon his arrival at the kiva he takes a 

 position outside and east of the kfva. As soon as his presence is 

 announced by himself, .by stamping repeatedly with his foot, the 

 sprinkler comes out and takes from him the objects he has won, first 

 sprinkling a little meal on them and towards the kiva, and takes them 

 into the kiva, where he hands them to Tobengotiwa. He then takes 

 one of the bahos that have been lying at the south-west corner of the 

 altar and kneels before the Antelope priest who, still holding the 

 ' objects won by the racer, utters in a low voice a prayer, whereupon 

 the Snake chief takes the objects, also utters a prayer, and then hands 

 them back to the sprinkler, who takes them out and hands them to the 

 winner with a double green bdho, a small sack of corn-meal, and dig- 

 ging stipk, (See PI. 175.) He first seems to express a prayer or good 

 wish, arxd then gives some instructions to the boy, who thereupon goes 

 down to the valley to one of his fields, where he digs a hole with the dig- 

 ging stick, as deep as the length of his arm, into which he throws a few 



