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Between 12 ami 1 oclock lutivra, assisted by Honyi and Letaiyo, 

 fliiisbed making twelve sets of cakwa (blue) pahos, most of which 

 were composed of two sticks of nniforni diameter, and only one set 

 showed the flat face characteristic of the female. They likewise made 

 twelve nakwiikwoci hotomni, consisting of a twig about 2 feet long 

 from which fournakwakwocis depended at intervals, and twelve simple 

 feathered strings. When these were finished Intiwa placed them in a 

 tray of meal beside the si'iiapu and brought from the paraphernalia 

 closet of the kiva six ears of corn of different colors, his tiponi, two 

 nakwipis and as many aspergills, two or more rattles, and other bundles 

 containing the remaining paraphernalia of the cloud-charm altar. 



At 1.30 p. m. he placed a small hillock of sand back of the sipapu 

 and deposited his tiponi upright ni)on it; he then made the cloud- 

 charm altar,' arranging the corn at the ends of six radial lines of meal 

 in a sinistral circuit, placing two crystals upon each ear of corii except 

 that corresponding to the nadir. The aspei'gills (makwampis) also 

 were laid down beside each ear of corn except that which was symbolic 

 of the nadir. The sequence of ceremonials which then took j)lace about 

 this altar was as follows: 



1. Ceremonial smoke. 



2. Prayers. 



3. Liquid iwured into the crenelated vessel or nakwipi. 



4. Songs. 



Synopsis of ceremonial events during the songs: 



(rt) Meal shaken from the six aspergills into the liquid. 



(b) Whistling into the liquid through a turkey bone, and 



asperging to the cardmal points with the same, six 



times in all. 

 (e) Meal cast into liquid, on tray of pahos and over the tiponi 



in ceremonial circuit. 

 {(I) Pollen cast on the same objects in sequence. 



5. Prayers. 



6. Ceremonial smoke into the liquid with two pipes. 



At the close of this observance Hahaiwiiqti and the Natackas came 

 to the kiva hatch and a comic dialogue ensued. She demanded meat 

 and other food, and the elders went up the ladder and refused to grant 

 her wishes. Xatacka hooted and Soyokmana whistled back, and then 

 the Heheakatcinas threw down the end of their lariat, and those in 

 the kiva below hung a piece of sheepskin and horns of goats to it. 



Intiwa then called two youths, and without anointing them^ gave 

 them instructions where to deposit the offerings which had been conse- 



'See Nimi^nkatoina .lUar, caUed nananivo pouya, six-directions altar. The whole ceremony is an 

 invocation to the six world-quarter deities. 



-It is generally the custom to anoint the feet, hands, etc, "with honey when a person is sent out with 

 oiferings to shrines. (See "Snake dance,'' Journal of American Ethnology and Arch,Tology, vol. iv.)' 



^See cloud-charm altar in other ceremonials. It is redundant in this place to repeat these accounts, 

 as the variations are not important. (See Journal of American Ethnologf' and Archaeology, vol. II, 

 No. 1.) The Powiimu altars are the same as the Ximan. q. v. 

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