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choirs. One choir sat in the southeast corner of the ki'wi'sine; the 

 other was g-rouped in the northeast corner. These choirs had been 

 taught appropriate songs for the occasion by Kow'wituma and 

 AVats'usi. The maidens on the south side, holding their 'oeautiful 

 'hla'we (a number of white stalks covered with white phuue-like 

 leaves), danced first to the accompaniment of the choir in the southeast 

 corner of the ki'wi'sine. Then the maidens on the north side danced 

 to the music of the choir grouped in the northeast corner. 



At midnight the A'shiwanni, Gods of War, the maidens, and the 

 members of the choirs left the ki'wi'sine for si'aa' te'wita, where they 

 sat under a hflni'pone of kia'la'si'lo constructed by the A'wan ta'V-hu, 

 pe'kwin, and Pi'"lashiwanni Ko'yemshi. Near the west side in the 

 middle of the hiim'pone a meal painting of clouds had been made b}" the 

 pe'kwin. The A'shiwanni, carrying- their mi'wachi from the O'he'wa 

 ki'wi'sine, deposited them in line on the cloud syni])ol. U'yu3'ewi 

 laid upon the meal painting' a folded white cotton embroidered kilt 

 having a broad band of blue-green painted on it, symbolic of the vege- 

 tation of the world, and painted at each end of the band w^as the game 

 of sho'liwe, the game itself- being tied to one corner of the kilt and 

 a game of ti'kwane being tied to another corner. The pe'kwin sat 

 immediately' back of the painting. The other A'shiwanni sat in line 

 on the west side of the ham'pone. The Corn maidens took seats in 

 the ham'pone corresponding to those occupied in the ki'wi'sine, the 

 a'wan kiow'u sitting at the east end of the north line, and the Blue 

 Corn maiden at the east end of the south line, these two iieing the 

 directors of the other maidens. Their te'likinawe were placed by their 

 sides next to the meal line. 



A fire made by a man of the Badger clan burned in the plaza 

 before the ham'pone that all present might be seen. No youths 

 could enter the ham'pone where the beautiful maidens were, and 

 every protection was thrown around them that they might not 

 again be frightened away. The Corn maidens slept till dawn, the 

 A'shiwanni, Divine Ones, and warriors remaining awake to protect 

 them. 



At da3dight the Gods of War, knowing that Pa'yatamu lived in 

 the midst of fog and cloud, thought it would be well to seek his aid, 

 and visited his house under the rainbow.** Pa'yatamu returned with the 

 Gods of War to I'tiwanna, going at once to the house of the Ma"ke 

 'san'nakwe (Little Fire fraternity), where he was joined b}- the eight 

 members of the order he had originated some time before.* The}^ 

 went together to the plaza at the northeast corner of the ham'pone, 

 from which pomt Pa'yatamu had previousl}^ observed the Corn maidens. 

 The flutes given them by Pa'yatamu were laid across a large and beau- 



a This bow has no reference lo the celestial bow. b See Esoteric fraternities. 



