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the women who have stationed themselves on the edge of 

 the roofs of the lower stories throw upon the heads of the 

 participants jars full of water, first 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-shi, 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 1 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-place 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 Klem-tu-nu-nun-ey, the wind. This implement is also carried by the 

 mythical personage, Pau ti-va. 



