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The war whoop is now oiven and they cry " teya" (more). Aftei* 

 the second and third war whoops they again cry '"teya." After the 

 fourth they cry '^ alth'nate'- (a little more). The pa'mosona now expec- 

 torates upon a bit of cedar bark, waves it to the six regions, and 

 throws it upon the ground, and then the pa'sewikia retire to their 



homes. 



The victor and the warrior, who acts as eklor brother, give each a 

 tiny vase tilled with rain water and a diminutive gourd dipper, whicli 

 were given them by the Kia'kwemosi, to the pa'mosona, and about 8 

 o'clock the same afternoon the pa'mosona takes a piece of scalp, every 

 vestige of hair having long since disappeared, from the great pottery 

 vase (colored black) which remains permanently in the scalp house 

 (see plate cxxx).« "This vase was captured from the Xavahos so long 

 ago that no one s grandfather knows when.'' Dividing the piece of 

 scalp in two, the pa'mosona proceeds on foot about 2 miles north of 

 the village to a sequestered spot surrounded by hillocks and ravines. 

 Here the two pieces of scalp are deposited, one of the vases of ram 

 water and a gourd being pkced by the side of each. The pa'mosona 

 makes a small tire Ijetween fhem. and sprinkles an extensive circle of 

 meal, embracing the surrounding ridges symbolizing the enemy sittmg 

 around the camp lire. Immediately upon the return of the pa'mosona 

 to the village, the victor and elder brother, with their bows and 

 arrows, hasten (on foot) to the place to make a reconnaissance. Dis- 

 covering the camp lire, one exclaims, -I think there is an enemy." 

 Each cuts a juniper twig, some 3 inches in length, from the top of the 

 tree with an archaic stone knife belonging to the elder brother Bow 

 priest. Four equilateral triangular cuts are made at the twig and it 

 is then snapped off. One now passes to the right around the circle 

 of meal, the other to the left, and when on opposite sides they draw 

 their bows. The twig is held in. the left hand while tiie arrow is shot. 

 Each shoots his arrow into one of the bits of the scalp. The arrow 

 is not removed, and the bit of scalp is placed in tiie toga, the shaft 

 passing over the region of the heart, the feathered ends touching the 

 chin. The juniper twig is also carried in the toga. The tiny vase of 

 water and the gourd are transported in the blanket, which is carefully 

 secured about the waist. 



During the absence of the victor and the elder brother the pe'kwin 

 makes an excavation, about 8 inches square and 20 inches deep, on the 

 plain about 400 yards north of the village and directly south of whcMe 

 the scalps are to be hoisted for the Hrst time. A mound of loose eaith 

 10 inches in diameter is now raised on each side of the excavation and 



oThe scalp house is a conical structure covered with earth, standing out on the plain several hun- 

 dred yards north of Zuiii. It has been moved sinre the writer became acquainted with these people 

 to make room for the extension of the pueblo, .-rrals ,U: Tlu- mound opens at the apex and ,s 

 covered with a stone slab and several flat baskets, one upon the other. 



