488 THE ZUNI INDIANS [eth. ann. 23 



invalid is nude, except the breechcloth. When the patient is a 

 female she Avears the usual clothes minus the pi'toni (a piece tied 

 in front and falling- over the back). The male members of the 

 order group at the south wall and midway, facing the choir. The 

 female members sit on the opposite side of the room. Blankets 

 are arranged so as to form a dressing room for the personators 

 of the gods at the east end of the room. The gods stamp and 

 dance on the roof until it is time to descend through the hatchway 

 into the chamber below, the custom being to enter the house about 

 dusk. Shits'ukia (warrior or aid to Kok'ko 'hlun'na) carries giant 

 yucca in the left hand and a rhomlius in the right. Kwe'lele carries 

 the yucca in the right hand and in the left sticks for producing fire by 

 friction and an unlighted cedar brand. Shits'ukia precedes Kok'ko 

 ^hlan'na, who carries giant yucca in each hand, down the ladder, as he 

 always leads this god, who has tiny eyes.« 



A female member of the order, holding her mi'li (insignia of the 

 ^Mystery medicine order) and sacred meal basket, sprinkles meal as she 

 loads the gods from the roof to the room; passing from left to right, 

 they encircle the patient four times, the choir singing to the accompani- 

 ment of rattle and pottery drum. Upon halting, Shits'ukia, taking- 

 meal from his belt, runs a line with his four fingers across the body to 

 the waist, beginning at the left shoulder of the patient; and Kok'ko 

 Milan'na, standing before the patient, places his hands to the middle of 

 his own forehead, as he clasps the yucca in both hands and then runs it 

 over the meal lines indicated by Shits'ukia. Kwe'lele simply passes 

 around the patient; but should Kwe'lele be chosen bv the patient 

 instead of the Kok'ko 'hlan'na, the places of these two gods would be 

 reversed. The gods again pass around the invalid, and Shits'ukia 

 draws the meal lines from the right shoulder across to the waist, and 

 Kok'ko 'hlan'na repeats the strokes with the 3-ucca. Again they encir- 

 cle the patient, and the lines are drawn from left to right across the 

 knees, which are close together, and the Kok'ko *hlan'na repeats the 

 motion with the 3'ucca. After another round, Shits'ukia draws lines 

 of meal from right to left over the knees, and Kok'ko %lan'na In-ings 

 the yucca over, and again the meal lines are made across the back. 

 Instead of beginning at the shoulders in crossing the back, he begins 

 at the waist, running the lines upward to the shoulder. The 3'ucca 

 always follows the meal lines. After the back is crossed the arms of 

 the patient are extended forward and kept close together while they 

 are crossed with the meal and yucca. The palms of the hands are 

 turned upward and crossed together in the same wa\^ Kok'ko Milan'na 

 now stands at the side of the patient, and removing his mask hands 

 it to the patient's fraternity father, who places it over the invalid's 



('A pregnant woman avoids looking upon the mask of Kok'ko 'hlan'na. that her child may not 

 have small eyes, since the Zunis regard large eyes as a mark of beauty. 



