108 SUMMER CEREMONIALS 
basket of sacred meal. On his head he wore two horns, 
one on each side. A second carried a bowl of water and 
a feather wand. Two women and a boy folh)wed. 
The participants who followed the priests were scantily 
clad and many of them were painted. In their hair, on 
either side of the head, sunflowers were placed and around 
their loins there were sacred dance kilts or blankets. 
White streaks or bands were daubed on the body and along 
the sides of their legs. Each dancer carried in his hand 
a corn stalk with corn upon it. There were several naked 
boys in the procession who wore a profusion of shell beads, 
had horns tied to their heads, while their bodies were 
daubed with streaks of white. Behind the procession came 
two persons who carried bows in their hands and over their 
shoulders hung quivers filled with arrows. There was 
carried, likewise, a whizzer or a flattened slab tied to the 
end of a string, by revolving which they made a whizzing 
or buzzing noise. These men are said to correspond with 
the Pith-la-sJie-ida-nei/ or Priests of the Bow at Zufii . They 
are known as the Ka-lek-ta-ka . The priests and boys with 
horns on their heads are called A-lou-^a-ka. 
AVhen the procession arrived at tiie open space which 
surrounds the pinnacle of rock where tiie snake dance is 
celebrated, it formed in lines with several abreast facing the 
rock and sung a low song without dance, the leader beating 
time with his foot. The song was accom})anied with rat- 
tles and horns. The Ka-lek-ta-ka contributed to the sons; 
the noise of their whizzers which they whirled about the 
head. After the participants had sung their song at the 
edge of the open space around the rock pinnacle, they ad- 
vanced a few paces and repeated the song and ceremony. 
This they did four times until they advanced to a lodge or 
bower, She-Jtep-kte, built of cotton-wood in the middle of 
the place. Upon the rock upon which they stood the 
