STEVENSON] A'pr'^LASHIWANNI 583 



near ]\v, l)efore he joins the gToup. The victor takes a bit of red pig- 

 ment from a small buckskin medicine bag and deposits it on a scrap 

 of paper and. removing the divided scalp from the pole, he and the 

 elder brother each bore a hole through the portion of scalp he holds 

 and draws a buckskin thong through it; then breaking oflf a bit of 

 the scalp each runs a thong through it and attaches it to the larger 

 piece. The two pieces of scalp are now tied to a juniper twig, a 

 fluffy eagle plume having been previously attached to each twig. The 

 bark is picked off' the lower end of the twig the length of the four 

 fingers crosswise, and the red pigment is rubbed over the bared place. 

 The pa'mosona and his vice now appear and each one twirls juniper 

 bark in the faces of the victor and the elder brother, and going a 

 distance to the north the}" throw away the bark. 



During this time the warriors and the members of the Ant frater- 

 nity enjoy a social smoke. The arrival of the pe'kwin (sun priest), 

 the Shi'wanni of the West, and the elder brother Bow priest brings 

 the social gathering to a close. The latter presents to the victor and 

 elder brother each a reed cigarette colored red and so surrounded 

 with feathers of the eagle, turkey, and birds of the six regions that 

 the reeds can not be seen. The cigarettes and plumes are afterward 

 offered by the victor and elder brother to the Gods of War. The 

 pe'kwin and the Shi'wanni of the West now stoop side by side, facing 

 north; the elder brother Bow priest faces them. The Shi'wanni of the 

 West removes from a corn husk a strip of cotton cloth less than 2 

 inches wide and a reed, colored black and filled with native tobacco. 

 He rolls the strip of cotton and then lights it l)v striking flint (this 

 being a common way of furnishing light for cigarettes outdoors) and 

 hands the roll and reed to the pe'kwin, who lights the cigarette from 

 the burning cotton. A second cigarette is now lighted and the two 

 are smoked ])y the group. The remaining bits of the cigarettes are 

 placed in corn husks b}' the pe'kwin, who carries them later in the 

 evening to his home, and the following morning he takes them to the 

 ceremonial chamber of the Kia'kwemosi and there deposits them in a 

 large basket tray, where they remain eight days. These are afterward 

 attached to the images of U'3'uvewi and Ma'sai'lema." 



About 200. mounted men, wrapped in blankets and armed with 

 rifles and revolvers, and crowds of pedestrians gather aroinid the meal- 

 covered mounds. The A'pi'^lashiwanni and the Ant f raternit}', pre- 

 ceded by the victor, his elder brother, and the elder brother Bow priest, 

 advance slowly and with measured steps to the meal mounds, singing 

 the following refrain, which is low and nuisical: 



Ha"ma, ha""ma Shi'waiyu, shi'waiyu, w'ai'yu, wai'yu 



Hii''ma, ha'Mim rain priests, rain iniests, wai'yu, wai'yu 



Wai'3nima hai''na yu'liwa yu'liwa hi hi hi hi hi . 



Wai'yumn liai'na coming, coming. 



" See p. 597. 



