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marks extending longitudinally (figure 46). The four quadrants of 
the cup were decorated on the exterior with symbols of corn and ain 
clouds. and on the base were two black lines crossing at right angles. 
There lay on the buckskin, at one side, another ear of corn,a quantity 
of cotton string, and many feathers which had been taken from the 
tiponi and rejected, for a new ear of corn was to replace the old, and 
new wrapping was to be added. The grains of corn from the old 
tiponi were later planted, and many of the feathers were placed in 
shrines. 
In wrapping the tiponi the priest held the core in the left hand, and 
wound! the cotton string about it, inserting at times the feathers which 
protruded beyond the ear of corn. Suggestions were made in the 
course of the wrapping by several of those present, and many of the 
old feathers were replaced in the new bundle. 
After the tiponi had been wrapped, and a string with attached shells 
added as a necklace, Winuta and 
Tu'noa, the young Flute chief, arose 
and stood on the blanket side by 
side, facing the east, Tu'noa being 
on the left. Both were naked save 
for a breecheloth, and Winuta held 
the tiponi in his right palm, grasp- 
ing it midway of its length with his 
right hand. Winuta addressed a 
few words to Tunoa, who responded 
““Anteai” (““It is well”).  Honyi 
: then took Winuta’s place and spoke 
Fig, 46.—Core of Flute tiponi. in the same strain to the Flute chief, 
who remained standing. The tiponi, 
which had been passed by Winuta to Hofyi, was transferred by the 
latter to Sikyaustiwa, who followed the actions of the others by handing 
it to Hani, who made a fervent appeal and passed it to Tu’noa. After 
the Flute chief Tu’noa had received the palladium he carried it to 
the altar, and made with sacred meal, on the mound of sand where it 
formerly stood, six radiating lines, placing the tiponi at their junction. 
He then returned to that part of the room where the blankets had been 
spread on the floor, and smoked in silence for a long time. 

In a previous and fuller account of the renewal of the tiponi, in 
1892, it was said to take place on the sixth day after the main altar 
had been erected. It is possible that this and other variations may 
in part be due to the death of the old Flute chief Cimo and the eleva- 
tion of his younger suecessor Tu"noa. 

As he wound the tiponi he allowed the string to be drawn through his hand, which contained 
sacred meal. The winding was always toward the left, or in the direction called the sinistral cere- 
mol ] circuit 
