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meal upon the circle aiid placed a cincture pad of yucca upon it, and 

 holding the cloud bowl high above his head, he invoked the cloud 

 people of tlie north, west, south, east, zenith, and nadir, and of the 

 whole world, to water the earth. The bowl was then set upon the pad 

 and a reed 8 inches long laid across it from nrtrtheast to southwest. 

 The vice ho'naaite sx^read a small clotli and upon it reduced the bit of 

 root -which was to produce the suds to a powder, which he placed in 

 a little heap in front of the cloud bowl. The ho'naaite, who had left the 

 chamber, now returned with a parrot and a white stone bear 12 inches 

 long; the bear was wrapped in a large fine white buckskin and the 

 parrot was under the ho'naaite's blanket. These were deposited before 



the altar (PI. xxiii). 



The ho'naaite (PI. xxiv) 

 stooped an d , j) r a y i n g , 

 sprinkled corn pidlenupon 

 the bear and parrot. The 

 bear and tlie bird had 

 eagle jjlumcs attached to 

 their necks with cotton 

 cord. Those on the bear 

 were on the top of the neck 

 and those of the parrot 

 hung iinder the beak. 

 After the prayer the ho'na- 

 aite lighted a cigarette of 

 native tobacco and corn 

 husk from a stick some 5 

 feet long, held by a boy 

 member, and puffed the 

 smoke over the bear and 

 parrot. He then extended 

 the ci garette over the altar, 

 afterwards waving it to the 

 cardinal points. The vicar 

 and boy sprinkled the bear 

 and pairot with pollen from an abalone shell and the vicar dipped his 

 eagle plumes into the medicine bowl and sprinkled them four times, then 

 the altar, by striking tlie plumes with the rattle held in his right hand. 

 The ho'naaite then puffed smoke into the cloud bowl and over the bear 

 and parrot, and extended his cigarette to the cardinal points, and over 

 the altar. The vicar lighted a similar cigarette from the long stick held 

 by the boy, and standing to the west of the altar blew smoke over it, the 

 ho'naaite standing and smoking to the right of him. The vicar laid the 

 end of his cigarette by the cloud bowl and to the east of the line of the 

 meal. Thje shell of corn jjollen was then placed back of the altar and the 



Fig. 18.— Sand painting used in C6remoni.il for sick by 

 Ant Society. 



