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side, incliidino- ya'pota, pass by the west wall to the Sho'ko'we side 

 and, joining- the others, proceed to the plaza, led hy the A'wan 

 mo'sono'^kia of the Sho'ko'we side. The Sho'ko'we clioii- is joined 

 by the flutists. The dance is nearly the same as before, the difl'erence 

 being- that the 'hle'we are moved downward, while the song- implores 

 Great Mother of corn to give them many of her children during 

 the coming year. After the dance they return to the Sho'ko'we sid*, 

 the A'wan mosono"kia lingering, as before, a short time in the plaza; 

 those belonging to the ^Hla'hewe pass around to the south side. 



The same persons who dressed the male dancer and the girls now 

 disrobe them and prepare for another set of dancers, who appear as 

 soon as the others are gone, led by the A'wan a'mosi of the two sides. 

 The new set is dressed as before described. The start this time is 

 made from the Sho'ko'we side. After four sets of girls have danced, 

 as described, a feast is served, seventy-live great bowls of food and 

 coffee being brought by women and placed in two rows on either side 

 in the hilm'pone. After all the pai-ticipants in the drama have par- 

 taken of stewed mutton with chili and hominy, stewed peaches, wafer 

 bread, and coft'ee the remainder of the food is carried around and 

 distributed among the spectators. While the more exclusive women 

 with their children observe the ceremonies from windows opening 

 into the plaza or seated on blankets and robes on the south side of the 

 court, the house tops are crowded with persons of both sexes and all 

 ages, wearing their best clothes and most elaborate blankets and exhib- 

 iting the most intense interest in all that is passing l)efore them. 



Dancing is resumed after the feast, each side having five dances 

 before the arriv^al of the sunset dancers. The he'kupowanhak'tona 

 and sho'lipsimonthle'ona appear before the ushiin'ashute. The two 

 girls are dressed behind a blanket held by the elder brother Bow 

 priest and another shi'wanni. The Kia'kwemosi assists the girls for 

 a time, then the elder brother Bow priest takes his place and com- 

 pletes the dress. Their attire is like that of the 'kia'potiikwe. 

 After the he'kupow^anhak'tona are dressed the}' retire to a lower room 

 in the ceremonial house of the Kia'kwemosi which opens into the 

 ham'pone. There their hair is parted over the head and down the 

 back, done up on both sides over wooden forms used exclusively for 

 ceremonial hair dressing, and then wrapped with native ])lue varn. 

 Sho'lipsimonthle'ona's dress is like that of ya'pota, with long strings 

 of turquoise beads hanging- from his ears, lie wears three white 

 fluffy eagle plumes down the back of the hair, instead of two. but 

 he does not have the ear of corn in his belt, ^^'hile the girls are 

 having their hair dressed the elder brother Bow priest spreads 

 two blankets, one upon the other, on the floor of the ham'pone 

 on the ^Hla'hewe side toward the west end, A low box is placed 



