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way is passed to the eight officers and to all males preseht, who repeat 

 the same prayers. The warrior of the fraternity afterward places it 

 in a basket. 



The following morning, the order liaving spent the night in the 

 fraternity chamber, the warrior, after taking his morning meal, car- 

 ries the reed to his home; but soon afterward he visits O'pompia 

 mountain, and after reaching a shrine dedicated to the younger God of 

 War, he selects a tall tree near by. Climbing it, he attaches the reed to 

 the topmost limb, with prayers to the spirit of the tree to intercede 

 with the u'wannami (rain-ulakers) for cold rains and snows. On his 

 return to the village he goes to the house of every man of the frater- 

 nity and notifies him to come to the ceremonial chamber at night, at 

 which time all assemble and sit and smoke, and he announces that they 

 will have the arrow dance in February. 



The ceremony described was in connection with the Navaho dance ** 

 and was o])served b,v the writer in February, 1891. Each member of 

 the Arrow order makes three prayer plumes to Na'ke'e. Two are 

 retained and one is given to the director appointed to collect the 

 young pinon and spruce trees for the ceremonial. The indoor cere- 

 mony of the Arrow order is substantially the same as the Sword, the 

 main difference occurring on the fifth morning. At sunrise on the 

 fifth morning the men make suds and wash their heads. The one 

 novice also washes his own head. The hair, which the men must 

 attend to for one another, since no woman can come in or touch them, 

 is parted over the head and done up in the usual knot, with a wreath 

 of 3'ucca around the head; a fluffy eagle plume d3'ed red is attached to 

 the forelock and an elaborate wand is attached pendent to the back of 

 the hair near the crown. Their feet and legs halfway to the knees, 

 and hands and arms nearly to the elbow, are painted white. A ser- 

 pentine line for lightning runs up the outside of the legs and upper arms 

 and up each side of the chest and each side of the back. There are a 

 few variations, one man having blue-green curves spotted in red and 

 white over each scapula; another, blue-green up his right arm and 

 yellow up his left, while all the curves on a third are of blue- 

 green spotted in colors. A ribbon of yucca encircles the right wrist 

 and a bow wristlet is worn on the left. The face is colored black to 

 the line of the lips and painted white below; hawk down is applied 

 over the white, and a small quantity of the down is stuck to the end of 

 the nose. A line of micaceous hematite extends across the face below 

 the eyes. A black breechcloth with ))lue embroidered ends is worn. 

 Rattles are carried in the right hand. 



Each one receives in his left hand from the *Hlem'mosona the 



"The participants In the Navaho dance dress similar to the Navahos. 



