Nov., 1903. Oraibi Summer Snake Ceremony — Voth. 337 



mean while assembled for the last time.' The first smoke has been 

 had, the crooks taken out, the snake and tiponi handed to the Ante- 

 lope youth, the pot with the contents to the Antelope maid and all 

 await in silence the signal announcing the starting of the race. In 

 1896 I noticed that one of the men who came in from the race handed 

 to the sprinkler a young green corn-ear and one a young corn-stalk, 

 both of which he placed south of the sand mosaic. The Snake men 

 appear in partial Snake costume and Snake decoration." (See PI. 191.) 

 The latter varies from the usual body decoration, in the fact that the 

 face is painted deep black with a sprinkling of glittering specular iron 

 over it, the body probably daubed a shade blacker than usual and the 

 legs below the knee and arms below the elbow daubed pink entirely 

 instead of a large spot on the outside of the leg. (Compare Pis. 202 

 and 206.) The costume worn by the warriors consists of the large 

 tctl-nakwa, already described; the tc6-vitkuna (snake kilt) ^ with the 

 symbol of a snake on it; the wokokwava (big belt), consisting practi- 

 cally of a piece of buckskin cut into long fringes;^ arm bands, made 

 of greeii cedar bark or sometimes of green cedar wood; leg bands, 

 made of deer leg skin with the hair on, worn below the knee; mocca- 

 sin§, with fringed ankle bands; a foxskin and several strands of 

 beads. (See PI. 176.) The race this morning starts at a • place 

 known as the "Snake-Race-Place," about half a mile south-west from 

 the place where the Antelope race started the previous morning. 

 The same offerings are made by the warriors as on that occasion, and 

 the race — the sprinkling of meal as the racers reach the top of the 

 mesa, the performances of the warriors around and in the kivas, the 

 disposition of the race winner's prizes, the singing ceremony, etc. — is, 

 as far as my observation goes, an exact repetition of the corresponding 

 performances of the previous day. It was noticed in 1896 that the 

 Snake novice left his corn-ear in the Antelope kfva with the newly 

 brought in corn-stalk south of the altar. 



In the Antelope klva again no fasting is observed on this day. 

 On one occasion I noticed that Sihongwa carried out a small amount 

 of food in a bowl to a place near the Katcfna shrine west of 

 Oraibi. 



But proceed we now to the Snake klva and first record again the 



* Much smoking is being done in the Snake kfva early in the morning. On one occasion I 

 noticed that the sputa from the smokers had actually run along the floor for about four feet. In 1S96 

 the snakes were also transferred from the jars to a large sack early in the morning. In this bag they 

 were transferred to the booth in the afternoon. 



' To the lower edge of these formerly fawn hoops were tied, of which, however, only a few are 

 left at present. 



^ To some of which — formerly to all, probably— small pieces of petrified wood about two and a 

 ihalf inches lonj; and a quarter to one-half inches thick are fastened as rattles. 



