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officers take seats behind the altar, and the a'kwainosi sits north 

 and the warrior south of it. The 'Hlem'mosona now says: "1 hope all 

 will be happy, no one will be sad or ill." Then addressing the flutist 

 and warrior: "You remain here and make rains and snows for me." 

 Five men appointed to carry out the live heaps of food, offer it in 

 the river to the deceased members of the fraternity. The warrior 

 whirls the rhombus and the flutist plays on his flute until the return 

 of the men, when all sprinkle the altar with meal. 



The *Hlem'mosona now gives young l)uds of spruce and pinon, which 

 are in separate husks, to the a'kwamosi, who gathers them into one 

 husk and proceeds to prepare the medicine water to protect the throat 

 from being injured by the sword. He flrst deposits in the water 

 six pinches of the buds and then six stone fetishes, consecrating the 

 water with the ceremonies heretofore descriljed. After the consecra- 

 tion of the medicine water the order dances for a short time, and then 

 all retire for the night; but if anyone coughs, there is a repetition 

 of the flute playing and whirling of the rhombus and dancing the 

 remainder of the night. 



The swords are made on the fourth morning. The novice, who is 

 instructed by his fraternity father, makes his own sword. When a 

 woman is initiated her sword is made by her fraternity father. The 

 swords are fashioned like those of the Sword order, at the butt of the 

 tree, the trunk being slender (there are no serpentiform swords fash- 

 ioned by the order of the Kia'la*selo). The swords are afterward 

 rubbed with cougar grease and red hematite. This same hematite is 

 used by the Indians on their faces to protect them from sunburn, and 

 to color the plumes worn by the order of Mystery medicine and objects 

 sacred to the Bow priesthood. 



The *Hlem'mosona brings out six stone knives, each one a color of 

 one of the six regions, which are used to polish the swords. When 

 the sword is completed the maker attaches a la'showanne of a turkey 

 feather to the top of the tree from which his sword is fashioned, and 

 the tree is deposited in the east end of the room, with the sword pointing 

 east. 



If there is to be no initiation the dry painting described in the Janu- 

 ary ceremonial is omitted. The *Hlem'mosona, who sits at the south 

 end of the line of officers, now gathered near the east end of the cham- 

 ber, rises and leads them to the altar, which they all sprinkle with 

 meal. The altar is afterward sprinkled by the members at large, who, 

 after sprinkling the meal, pass by the south side around the altar and 

 return to their positions at the east end of the room. 



The 'Hlem'mosona, with the sword end of his tree resting over his 

 left arm and the tree extending on the flooi', now approaches the novice, 



