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Figure 25.—Meal painting and paraphernalia for mortuary ritual. The X design 
represents the tracks of the road runner; those with three toes, the turkey. 
dwelling. The corn ear and the poker are laid in front of the meal 
painting. A medicineman sits on the road with his eagle wing feathers 
on the road in front of him while he talks. When he gets up he picks 
up his feathers and goes toward the door, sweeping up the road with 
his plumes as he goes. 
The medicinemen take the soul out of the house together with the 
prayersticks that he will need on his journey. ‘The prayersticks are 
his credentials which he must show to Utcetsiti to certify his right to 
enter the underworld (see Stevenson, 1894, p. 145; also the account 
of an Acoma Indian’s dream in which prayersticks vie with the Bible 
as credentials for admittance to the underworld, White, 1932 a, p. 32). 
The medicinemen exhort the departing soul not to tarry on the road 
back, not to listen to any unfaithful spirits who sit by the roadside, and 
not to accept any offerings from them, for if he does he will never reach 
Shipap but will be doomed to sit by the roadside. 
Nawai stays in the house while the medicinemen go out to set the 
soul on the road toward the north. He tells the deceased’s relatives 
