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priest) uses a greater variety of feathers than the others, for he adds th«^ 

 plumes of the birds of the six regions that are specially associated with 

 his office. After the Kia'kwemosi completes his prayer plumes, he 

 adds fresh plumes to two long-necked gourds, each gourd being pro- 

 vided with a sprinkler (a reed about 12 inches long and i inch in diam- 

 eter). Four white fluffy eagle plumes are attached equidistant around 

 the upper edge of a white cotton cord netting, which covers a portion 

 of the bulb of the gourd, and a la'showanne of the same plumes is tied 

 near the upper end of each sprinkler. These jugs are afterward placed 

 on the meal painting in the chamber of the A'pi'Msishiwanni and are 

 carried in a later ceremony by the 'kia'punakwe (water-bearers or 

 sprinklers). 



The wood idols of the Gods of War are completed on the eleventh 

 day. U'yuyewi is made by the aged member of the Deer clan (see 

 plate xix), and his batons and games are made at the same time and 

 place by two other members of this clan. Ma*sai'lema and his appoint- 

 ments are made by three members of the Bear clan in the house of the 

 man who carves the image/' During the afternoon, after the com- 

 pletion of the images, the warriors, independently of one another, go 

 to the two houses and deposit two prayer plumes in upright position 

 in the yucca belt around each image. 



At sunset the maker of the image of the younger God of War, 

 accompanied by two members of his clan bearing the stafls and games 

 of Ma*sai'lema, carries the image, hidden under his blanket, to the 

 house of the maker of U'yuyewi, and stands it on the floor near the 

 north end of the room, some 3 feet south of the other image, both 

 effigies facing east. Other prayer plumes are added, and Anally the 

 idols are almost wholly obscured by the plumes. The images are 

 guarded until midnight by men of the two clans, appointed, respect- 

 ively, by the elder and the younger ))rother Bow priest, when they with 

 their belongings are taken to the ceremonial chamber of the warriors 

 by those who fashioned them and the men designated to carry the pai'a- 

 phernalia. They are received separately by the pe'kwin (sun priest) 

 with great ceremony, and stood beside the meal painting, previously 

 made by him on the floor in the west end of the room. 



The idol of the elder God of War is stood on the northwest corner 

 of the painting, that of the younger on the southwest corner, the para- 

 phernalia of each idol ])eing placed by its side and just behind it. Six 

 plume wands in clay holders extend in line lu'fore each image. The 

 two nearest the image of r'yuyewi have their sticks colored red. and 

 are ofl'erings to the Gods of War to destroy the encMuies of the world; 



aThese images are made only at the time of initiation and at tlic wintir solstii-e. It is staled in the 

 winter solstice ceremonies that wood of a pine tree strnck by liKhtniiiK is sclccle<l lor tin- fornicr 

 occasion, and cottouwood is used on the latter, to liring rain. 



