HOPI KATCINA ALTARS—FEWKES 481 
stand, and a ball made of powdered pikumi.** Intermediate be- 
tween these, also with a quarternary arrangement, there is a ball 
made of clay painted black in which a feather is attached, a black- 
ened reed, and a stone arrow point. The paho-stand with these 
objects consists of a cubical block in which the following objects are 
inserted in line: A small crook, a green double paho, several sticks 
(called civapi, howapki, honyi, masiswapi), a black eagle feather 
with four nakwakwocis tied to it and a ring with netted cord, and 
finally a paho of a color corresponding to the cardinal direction in 
which the paho-stand is placed. 
The details of the Powalawu ceremony have been described by 
Voth, from whose account I will mention a few generalities. 
The celebrants gathered at the altar at about noon and sang 
many songs with accompanying events which were performed by 
Sima, the chief, now dead. 
1. White earth, roots, and honey added to the medicine bowl. 
2. Meal made of watermelon, melon, squash, bean, and corn seeds, 
sprinkled carefully over the sand picture. 
3. Charm liquid stirred and sprinkled on sand altar. 
4, Priest ascended ladder of the kiva and blew a yellow feather 
through a reed from the north paho-stand out of the hatch toward 
the north, after which he blew a whistle pointing it the same way. 
This was done in sequence to the west, south, and east, taking objects 
from the altar each time. 
5. Priest ascended ladder with a black reed from north cluster, and 
blew from it, toward the north, a small feather. He then blew a 
feather in sequence from the four stones, ascending the ladder each 
time.*’ He licked honey from the stones and spat to the four cardinal 
points. 
6. Couriers carried the clay balls to distant shrines, and four 
priests bore the four paho-stands, reeds, and yellow balls to other 
shrines, also at cardinal points. 
While the above events were transpiring songs were sung by the 
assembled priests, and at the close the quartz crystal on the Sun pic- 
ture was raised from the stand and handled by each priest, who 
sucked it, and pressed it to his heart. 
7. Ceremonial smoke. 
8. Prayers. 
9. The sand gathered up and carried outside the kiva. 
10. Feast. 
in small pits lined with corn husks, which have previously been heated by building fires 
within them. The coals are raked out, the mush put in, and a stone slab luted over the 
pit. Upon this a fire is maintained over night, and on the morning of the final day of a 
great ceremonial they are opened. The soft part is eaten immediately, but the mush 
which has caked to the corn husks is reground and made into other forms of foo The 
above-mentioned balls are made of the latter products. 
27 Evidently this and the following acts are to bring the summer birds. 
