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bright-colored shawls of foreign manufacture. The four girls in the 

 house of the priest of *su'%lan'na are led to the entrance of the plaza 

 at the northeast street by the pa'raosona, and the four girls in the 

 other house are led to the southwest covered way l)y the vice pa'mo- 

 sona, two men of the pu'mokiakianawe awaiting each set of girls. 

 The party at the northeast corner represents U'yuyewi, and that at 

 the southwest corner Ma'sai'lema. As has been stated, "the Sun 

 Father relegated all land north of the road of day to U'yuyewi, and 

 all south to Ma'sai'lema.'' 



The pa'mosona and his aid and the vice pa'mosono"kia have seats 

 on the ledge at the south end of the line of pu'panakwe; the warrior 

 of the Ant fraternity, the victor, and the elder brother sit on raised 

 seats around the drum. The most aged member of the Bow stands by 

 a ladder north of the group, holding his war club. The pa'mosona 

 rises and sprinkles meal over the top of the drum and hooped drum- 

 stick which lies upon it, and offers a lengthy prayer for rain. He 

 afterward lights a cigarette of corn husk filled with native tobacco, 

 and drawing the smoke he putfs it into the meal on the drum, holding 

 his ;iiouth verv close, and again prays for rain. The choir and those 

 about it, the vice pa'mosono'^kia excepted, smoke similar cigarettes. 

 The warrior of the Ant fraternity repeats the puffing of the smoke 

 over the meal and prays. The 'others wave their cigarettes in the 

 direction of the drum, and the music begins. 



The warriors of the Ant fraternity, the victor, and the elder brother 

 join in the song, keeping time with their war clubs. The dancers start 

 with the beginning of the music, each side having been joined by two 

 warriors wearing ordinary cotton clothing, moccasins, and the war 

 pouch. Two of the warriors have the kem'poyanne; the others wear 

 red silk bandas around their heads. Each carries a war club in his 

 left hand. The two male pu'mokiakianawe on the side of the warriors 

 wearing the kem'poyanne have white embroidered kilts fastened at the 

 right side, a white cotton fringed sash passing around the waist and 

 looped at the right side, and a fox skin pendent at the back. Strings 

 of black stone archaic beads and shell beads pass over the right shoul- 

 der and under the left arm; hanks of native blue yarn are worn 

 around the neck and wrists, hanging in tassels; silk bandas adorn the 

 head, in addition to two eagle tail feathers standing from a heavy 

 aigret of hawk feathers at the back. The hair is done up m the con- 

 ventional knot. The white cotton trousers are tucked m the leather 

 leggings, and moccasins arc worn. The hands are colored pink, and 

 thTchin is painted in vertical lines in the same color. The two pu'mo- 

 kiakianawe on the other side are dressed in similar fashion, one, 

 however, wearing an ela))orate buckskin shirt trinmied with fringes 

 and triple rows of silver buttons: he wears no banda. Each carries a 

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