STEVENSON.] END OF CEREMONIAL. Ill 



The man at the west end of the line of worshipers now came forward 

 and the vicar gave hiiii a drink of the medicine water, then the man at 

 the east end of the line received a draft. The boy who threw the 

 suds with the plumes came next, and following him the boy (the 

 pauper) who held the miniature crook; then the third boy advanced 

 and drank; the man on the left of the ho'naaite following next, the 

 ho'naaite came forward; he did not receive the water from the shell, 

 but drank directly from the bowl; the vicar holding the bowl with his 

 right hand placed it to the ho'naaite's lips, the ho'naaite clasping the 

 ya'ya, which was held in the left hand of the vicar; he then taking the 

 bowl with his right hand and clasping the ya'ya with his left, held it 

 to the lips of the vicar, who afterwards left the room, carrying with him 

 the remainder of the medicine water and the ya'ya. He passed into 

 the sti'eet and, filling his mouth with the water, he threw a spray 

 through his teeth to the north, west, south, and east, the zenith and 

 the nadir and then to all the world, that the cloud people might gather 

 and water the earth. In a short time he returned and placed the bowl 

 and ya'ya before the altar. The shell was laid east of the line of meal 

 and in front of the cloud bowl. A cigarette was then handed the 

 ho'naaite and, after blowing the first few puffs over the altar, he 

 finished it without further ceremony, and taking the two baskets of 

 plume offerings in either hand he stooped with bended knees a short 

 distance in front of the altar and west of the line of meal. The two 

 minor members wrapped their blankets around them and stooped be- 

 fore the ho'naaite on the opposite side of the meal line. The ho'naaite 

 divided the offerings between the two, ijlacing them on the blanket 

 where it passed over the left arm: these offerings were to Pai'iitamo 

 and Ko'pishtaia, and were deposited by the boys at the shrines of 

 Kopishtaia (Pis. xxvi and xxvii). Food was now brought in by the boy 

 novitiate, and with the feast the society adjourned at 3 o'clock in the 

 morning. 



