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Ficure 38.—Atse’epanyi. 
spectators, who were not taking part in the ceremony at all, went up 
to the two dancers to get ianyi. The two dancers stood quietly 
until this ritual was over. 
When everything was finished all started to leave the plaza, going 
toward the south. Just as they were about to leave, a man called 
out something and they all stopped. The male dancer went about 
among the men and boys looking for someone to select as his successor. 
When he had found the man he wanted he hit him very lightly on the 
back, near the neck, with his hand ax, thus indicating his choice. 
Exclamations were made by all the men, and then all went back to 
the kiva. 
The woman dancer does not choose her successor; all of the women 
performers have been chosen at least as early as the day before. 
After rehearsing for a time at the kiva the group returns to the 
plaza with its newly selected male dancer and with another woman 
dancer. The whole procedure is then gone through again. There 
were about four or five dances during the afternoon. 
