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hangs over the north post of the altar. The ho'uaaite wear this neck- 

 lace in the evening ceremony. The sacred honey jug (a gourd) and 

 basket containing the sacred meal, a shell filled witli corn pollen, a 

 buckskin medicine bag, an arrow point, and an ancient square pottery 

 bowl are grouped iu front of the snake fetich on the north side of the 

 altar, and to tbe nortli of this group are other medicine bags and tur- 

 key feather wands, with bunches of llufly eagle plumes, tipped black 

 aud the other portion dyed a beautiful lemon color, attached to them 

 with cotton cord. These wands are afterwards held by the women, 

 who form the line at night on the north side of the room. A Tusayan 

 basket, containing the ofl'eriugs, consisting of ha'chamoni, each one 

 being tipped with a bit of raw cotton and a single plume from the wing 

 of a humming bird, with plumes attached upright at the base; H6r'ro- 

 tume (staffs) ornamented with plumes, Ta'-wa-ka (gaming blocks and 

 rings for the clouds to ride upon), Maic'-kur-i-wa-pai (bunches of 

 plumes of birds of the cardinal points, zenith and nadir), is deposited 

 in front of the snake fetich on the south side of the altar, and beyond 

 this basket are similar wands to those north of the altar, which are 

 carried in tlie ceremonial by the women on the south side of the room. 

 Five stone knives complete the group. A white stone bear. 12 inches 

 long, is placed in front of the whole, aud a parrot is attached to the top 

 of the central-slat figure. (PL xv) Unfortunately, the flashlight photo- 

 graph of the altar of the Snake Society made during the ceremonial 

 failed to develop well, and, guarding against possible faihu-e, the writer 

 succeeded in having the ho'naaite arrange the altar at another time. 

 The fear of discovery induced such haste that the fetiches, which are 

 kept carefully stored away in different houses, were not all brought 

 out on this occasion.' 



When the altar is completed the ho'naaite and his associates stand 

 before it and supplicate the presence of the pai'atamo and Ko'pish- 

 taia, who are here represented by images of themselves, these images 

 becoming the abiding places of the beings invoked. After the prayer, 

 the ho'naaite and his vicar sit upon their folded blankets near the fire- 

 place, where a low fire burns, and with a supply of tobacco and corn 

 husks content themselves with cigarettes until the opening of the 

 evening ceremony. 



By 9 o'clock the Snake society was joined iu the chai-an-ni-kai (cer- 

 emonial chamber) archaic, Su"-8er-ra-kai by the Kapina, it being the 

 prerogative of the honaaite of one organization to invite other societies 

 to take part in his ceremonies. They formed in line, sitting back of 

 the altar; the honaaite being in the rear of the central slat figure, 

 which symbolized the honaaite of the cult society of the cloud people. 

 The other members were seated in the rear, as near as could be, of 



' The uncolored illnstrations are from photo^aphs by Miss May S. Clark, the interior views being 

 by flash light. The writer is pleased to congratolate Miss Clark for having succeeded under the 

 moat trying circumstances. 



