FEWKES] THE PUBLIC FLUTE CEREMONY 99% 
The arrangement of this division was similar to that of the Cak- 
walenya, but it will be noticed that the number of participants was 
larger. The five men with white blankets walked side by side, while 
the others, bearing cornstalks, and the man with the sun emblem, 
formed the left wing of the platoon. A naked boy with the Flute 
standard accompanied the Macilefiya group (plates Lvm, Lrx). 
THE FLUTE CHIEFS 
Each of the Flute chiefs carried his tiponi resting on his left arm, 
and had a basket-tray of meal in his left hand. He wore a white cere- 
monial garment, or kilt, with a knotted sash. The chief of the 
Cakwalefiya is not shown in the accompanying illustration (plate Lvm), 
but the man next to the priest with the sun emblem is the Macilenya 
chief. 
THE FLUTE GIRLS 
There were four Flute girls, one on each side of the two Flute boys. 
They were all clothed alike and bore similar objects in their hands. 
Each wore a downy feather on the crown of her head, and her hair 
was tied with a string at the back of the neck. In her ears were 
square mosaic turquoise pendants, and several necklaces were also 
worn. The chin was painted black; a white line was drawn across the 
cheeks from ear to ear along the upper lip. Each girl wore two white 
blankets, one as a skirt fastened by a girdle having long white pend- 
ants knotted at the point of attachment. In her left hand she carried 
objects similar to those borne by the boy, and in the right a small 
annulet with a loop made of yucea fiber, by which it was slipped over 
the end of a stick (plate tx1). The dress and facial decoration of 
the Flute girls were identical with those of the Snake maid in the kiva 
during the dramatization about the Antelope altar at Walpi, and 
the two are supposed to be the same as the maids which are also 
represented by effigies on the Flute altars. 
THE FLUTE BOYS 
The Flute boys of the two Flute divisions were dressed alike, and 
were furnished with the same offerings. Each wore a feather in his 
hair and a white ceremonial kilt over his loins. The arms, body, and 
legs were naked, and each carried in his left he 1d a netted gourd with 
water from Toreva spring, and a wooden slat upon which was depicted 
an ear of corn to which a feather was tied. In his right hand he bore 
a small, black, painted stick about an inch long, with a yucca fiber 
loop, by which it was carried, slipped on the end of a stick not unlike 
those about the Antelope eltars. His hair hung loosely down his 
back. 
In all essential features the Flute boys were clothed and decorated 
in the same manner as the Snake youth in the kiva exercises of the 
