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placed there with ceremony. One of these, the oifering of 
the Prief?thood of the Bow, Pith-la-she-wa-ney, is a stick 
about six inches in length upon which is tied a miniature 
hoop with cotton network and small bow and arrows with 
small marine shells dangling from it. The enclosure in 
which these offerings were found was surrounded l)y an 
irregular wall of stones. 
On the sides of the same mesa^ there are several shrines 
in cave-like erosions in the rock. Some of these are sim- 
ple rows of prayer plumes, great and small, while in others 
there are the skulls and bones of animals arranged with 
more or less regularity. Simpler shrines are numerous 
about Zuiii ; some of them are small heaps of stones in the 
crevices of which are placed plumes ; others have rows 
of prayer plumes deposited under an overhanging rock. 
The shrine of Her-pah-ii-naJi situated a few rods from 
Zuiii on the south side of the river near the site of the old 
town of Hal-o-na-wan is a rectangular rock enclosure with 
two chambers with entrances on the east side closed with 
flat slabs of stone. Within them there are ofie rings of 
sacred water, meal and feather plumes, while a few water- 
worn rocks are placed on the top of the shrine. This place 
is a sacred one to the Zuiiians and was visited by them at 
the close of the Ham-po-ney dance, as later described. 
Among the most conspicuous of the ceremonials of the 
pueblos are the sacred dances. The Zuiiians preseiwe these 
observances in a comparatively primitive condition less 
modified probably by white influence than among those 
1 Ta-yal-o-ne, orTlmnder Mountain, is a most conspicuous table-land to tlie south 
eastofZuni. With it are connected many interesting- Zuiii folk-tales and at its 
base are the ruins of former pueblos. Tlie top was once inhabited as the ruins 
there attest and to it the wliole Zuiii nation has more than once retreated for pro- 
tection against their foes. This gigantic mesa is difficult to climb, the trail on the 
side toward Zufii being often cut in the side of tlie pvecii)it()us cliff. There are also 
shrines on the "Twin Buttes," Quil-le-yal-o-ne, to tlie north of Zuiii. 
