lOG SUMMER CEREMONIALS 
the bower into the open plaza. They bore painted tablets 
on their heads and in their hands carried ears of corn 
and sticks upon which were tied feathers. Their arms 
were extended and swayed up and down as they went 
through the dance. The male dancer stood midway in the 
line and, when the women ceased, kept on dancing, raising 
one foot rapidly after the other. Brass bells rattled on 
his knees. 
The ears of corn which each dancer held was drawn to 
the mouths of the dancers by several old women who per- 
formed that ceremony passing from one to another ot the 
participaPits as described in the Klar-Jiey-ioey. In the 
second part of the dance in which the musicians furnished 
the instrumental nuisic, the dancers carried hand tablets 
similar to those which they bore on their heads. 
The dancing was continued all day with the exce[)ti()n 
of a short time given to a feast when the dancers ate in 
the [)resence of the audience among whom the food was 
distributed after the dancers had eaten. 
The dance lasted all night, durinsj which a tire was 
kindled in front of the bower, and notwithstanding a heavy 
rain somewhat dampened the ground of the ])laza, the 
dancing went on at intervals until daybreak. 
In the morning a procession, composed of four boys 
and girls with Ni-u-che the repi-esentative of A-hai-u-la., 
the war chief, and another visited the shrine of Her-jmh- 
(i-nali,^ marching three times around this sacred place. 
The slab which closes it on the east side was turned down, 
the chambei- was opened and in it were deposited with 
prayers, otierings of leathers, water and meal. 
'1 am told by one ol' the Moquis that they have a shrine similar to Herpnh-ti- 
niih which tliey call U-wor-ton-nuh, It is said to lie in tlie plain beyond Wol-pi. 
All interesting shrine at Teg-ua is the Kor-ge the " endof the trail," on the path 
up the side of the mesa from the spring. Tlie " stone" in this is enclosed in a rock 
enclosure and is spirally coiled resembling a fossil, 
