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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 of the 

 participants as described in the Klar-hey-wey . In the 

 second part of the dance in which the musicians furnished 

 the instrumental music, the dancers carried hand tablets 

 similar to those which they bore on their heads. 



The dancing was continued all day with the exception 

 of a short time o-iven to a feast when the dancers ate in 



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the presence of the audience among whom the food was 

 distributed after the dancers had eaten. 



The dance lasted all night, during which a fire was 

 kindled in front of the bovver, and notwithstanding a heavy 

 rain somewhat dampened the ground of the plaza, the 

 dancing went on at intervals until daybreak. 



In the morning a procession, composed of four boys 

 and girls with Ni-u-che the representative of A-hai-u-ta, 

 the war chief, and another visited the shrine of Her-pah- 

 ti-nah, 1 marching three times around this sacred place. 

 The slab which closes it on the east side was turned down, 

 the chamber was opened and in it were deposited with 

 prayers, offerings of feathers, water and meal. 



il am told by one of the Moquis that they have a shrine similar to Herpah-ti- 

 nali which they call U-wor-ton-nah. It is said to lie in the plain beyond Wol-pi. 



An interesting shrine at Teg-ua is the Kar-ge the "endof the trail," on the path 

 up the side of the mesa from the spring. The " stone" in this is enclosed in a roc.k 

 enclosure and is spirally coiled resembling a fossil, 



