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Koshairi ritual.—The cacique may ask the Koshairi to perform a 
ritual on the ninth day, immediately after the retreat. This will con- 
sist either of (1) going around a definite circuit, or circuits, stopping 
at various sacred spots (tsapacroma); or (2) making this circuit and 
having a race afterward. 
My notes for this ritual and race were hurried and incomplete. 
Figure 28 shows the four circuits, I, II, HI, and IV to the four 
“corners” [of the world] about Sia; the circuits would be made in the 
- numerical order indicated. The little circles on circuits indicate 
sacred spots; the names of only some were obtained, and the number 
and location of those on circuits II and III were not ascertained. 
Some, if not all, sacred spots are marked by stones; the one at Gyawi 
kot bears the so-called Zia sun symbol (see fig. 13), now used by the 
New Mexico Highway Department; kot, ‘‘mountain,” is merely a 
part of the name of some of the spots. My notes do not make clear 
whether the Koshairi make all four circuits or only one, or more than 
one. 
If the Koshairi race, they start at either Koasaiya or Djacka (Road 
Runner) Mountain, alternating yearly. They do not wear the costume 
Koasaiya 
Old Pueblo ; 
Ruins \%miles 
RoadRunner 
“Mountain 
Ficure 28.—Koshairi ritual race: Kacaipime. 
