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upon the cloud people to gather to water the earth with as much euthu- 

 isiasui as his chleis. 



The song continued, with all standing, without cessation for an hour. 

 The woman then brought a vase of water and gourd from the southwest 

 corner of the room and placed it in front of the altar on the line of meal, 

 and the ho'naaite took fi'om the west side of the altar four medicine 

 bags, handing two to the man and two to the boy (pollen being in one 

 bag and meal in the otlier), and giving the shell containing the pollen 

 to the woman. She stood in front of the altar east of the line of meal 

 swaying her body from side to side, holding her wand in the right hand 

 and the shell in tlie left, keeping time to the rattle and the song. She 

 emptied a gourd of water from the vase into the medicine bowl, imi)lor- 

 ing Quer'riinna to intercede with the cloud people to assemble; the 

 ho'naaite then sprinkled se'wili into the medicine bowl ; then the little 

 boy sprinkled pollen into the bowl, invoking the cloud people to gather, 

 and the vicar, with the same ])etition, sprinkled the pollen. The woman 

 then emptied a second gourd of water, first waving it to the north, into 

 the medicine bowl, witli a call for the cloud people to gather; the 

 ho'naaite ;igain deposited a poction of the se'wili into the bowl and 

 his vicar and the boy sprinkled in meal, with an api)eal to the cloud 

 people; again the woman lifted a gourdful of water and waved it to- 

 ward the west and emptied it into the bowl, invoking the cloud people 

 to gather; and the others sprinkled corn pollen, the vicar and boy call- 

 ing upon the cloud people to gather; the woman then waved a gourd 

 of water to the south and emptied it into the bowl, and ngain the 

 others s])rinkled pollen, the vicar and boy repeating their petition; 

 another gourdful was lifted and waved to the east and emptied into 

 the bowl and the sprinkling of the pollen was repeated. The womau 

 returned the vase to the farther end of the room (she officiated in the 

 making of the medicine water, as the vicar, being a paralytic, was una- 

 ble to perform this duty), and resumed her seat back of the altar; 

 reaching for^vard, she removed two small medicine bags, and taking a 

 pinch of pollen from one and a pinch of meal from the other, sprinkled 

 the medicine water; after repeating the sprinkling, she tied the bags 

 and returned them to tlieir place by the altar. The ho'naaite, dipping 

 his plumes into the medicine bowl, sprinkled the altar three times by 

 striking the top of the plumes held in the left hand with the rattle held 

 in the right. The sprinkling was repeated three times by the others 

 while the ho'naaite sang a low chant. All now rose, and the ho'naaite 

 continuing the song, moved his body violently, the motion being from 

 the knees ; as he sang he extended his eagle plumes over the altar and 

 dipped them into the medicine water with a call for the cloud people to 

 gather; he then dipped the bird feathers attached to his wand into the 

 medicine water with a similar exhortation; the boy dii)ped the feathers 

 attached to his waud into the water, striking them with the rattle, call- 

 ing upon the cloud people to gather and water the earth ; the ho'naaite 



