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head;" and after he expectorates throug-h the small month hole in the 

 mask, the fraternity father removes it and hands it to the wearer, who 

 returns it to his head. 



The three gods now retire behind the curtain. After removing 

 their masks tliey return to the room, taking seats of their choice, and 

 all the members of the division, except the three personating the 

 gods, the woman who leads them, the fraternity father, and the inva- 

 lid,^ who remains on his bed, go to their homes for the evening meal. 

 Those remaining, including the invalid, are served in the chamber of 

 the invalid by his female relatives. 



Members of the order return to the room of the invalid about 9 

 o'clock and resume their former seats. Kok'ko 'hlan'na. Shits'ukia, 

 and Kwe'lele are personated during the night by different male mem- 

 bers, who retire behind the curtains to don the dress. Female members 

 wear the dress of other gods over their own, l)ut not the masks. The}' 

 receive their regalia behind the curtain and ascend with it to the roof, 

 male members accompanying them to assist in dressing. Wheji fully 

 attired they descend into the room and dance. The night is consumed 

 in dancing, the men and women wearing the costumes of gods accord- 

 ing to the will of the director of the division. The women remove the 

 regalia in the room, but not behind the curtain. At dawn three mem- 

 bers of the order, who may be of any clan, make lire with the fire 

 sticks of the Kwe'lele. They sit in the center of the room where the 

 invalid reclined in the early evening. Kok'ko 'hlan'na, Shits'ukia, and 

 Kwe'lele are now personated by those who performed over the invalid, 

 the two former stamping about while the fire is being made. At the 

 same time the director of the division bathes the Kwe'lele under each 

 knee with medicine from a medicine bowl, and the bowl is afterward 

 placed near the fire-makers. The man who produces the fin^ moves 

 the crushed cedar fiber back and forth, and another lights the cedar 

 brand from it and dips the brand in the medicine water. The director 

 now carries the medicine bowl to the invalid, who reclines against his 

 fraternity father seated against the north wall and west of the choir, 

 and gives him several drinks directly from the bowl. The remainder 

 of the medicine is afterward drunk by the invalid. 



The three gods led by the woman who preceded them to the chamber 

 now go some distance east of the village, and when they return the 

 fraternity father places the invalid in his old position in the middle 

 of the floor and leaves him. The gods encircle him four times^ and 

 two of them ascend to the roof, led by the woman as before. Kwe'- 

 lele, who remains, stands with a foot on each side of the sick man's 

 head, holding the fire stick in his left hand and the drill in his right. 

 He also holds in his left hand four cakes of bread strung on a yucca 



nWhen Kwe'lele is chosen his mask is placed over the patient's head instead of that of Kok'ko 

 «hlnn'na. 

 bit the patient is able ho may take a seat in tlie room wherever he chooses, but he must not leave it. 



