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the women who have stationed themselves on the edge of 
the roofs of the h)\ver stories throw upon the heads of the 
participints jars full of water, Hrst taking a handful of the 
same and throwing into the air as an offering. Little girls 
imitate their elders, and in one instance I observed a wo- 
man sprinkle a little sacred meal upon the clowns as they 
passed along. At the conclusion of the ceremony they 
retire to their house and the ceremony is not repeated. 
It happened on the same or nearly the same date in 1889 
and 1890, but in the former year it was a day before the 
first Kor-kok-slii, while in the latter it was four days be- 
fore the same observance. 
On the morning of the fourth day before the first rain- 
dance, there left the pueblo three men marching abreast 
who took the trail leading to Ojo Caliente. These priests 
chanted a song as they left the town. Of the three one 
bore in his hands a bundle of feathers and another carried 
a whizzer or flat slab^ attached to a string which he whirled 
about his head making a buzzing noise as he marched 
along. 
These men are priests who go to the Sacred Lake to 
perform certain observances preliminary to the first rain- 
dances. 
On the third day after their departure at about night- 
fall a procession of dancers approached the pueblo from 
the southwest. Their song could be heard long before 
they appeared and near their meeting-})lace on the foot- 
hills a fire had been kindled, the smoke of which could be 
distinguished from the town. The men who formed this 
procession did not accompany the bearers of the feather 
offerings to the Sacred Lake, but were seen leaving the 
pueblo in threes and fours dressed in their ordinary cos- 
tume, in the middle of the same afternoon. They carried 
1 Called Klemttt-nu-nun-ey, the wind. This implement is also carried by the 
mythical personage, Pau ti-va. 
