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velvet trousers, a white cotton shirt with a native blue woven shirt over 

 it, red-brown moccasins: the hair is done up as usual. Their toilets 

 are made at their homes, and after comino- to the ceremonial cham- 

 ber each has a large white buckskin doubled and tied at the throat, 

 hanging over the shoulders and caught at the waist by an embroid- 

 ered sash looped at the right side. They wear turquoise earrings and 

 elaborate necklaces. When they are thus attired, the elder brother 

 Bow priest empties a handful of meal into the belts of the victor and 

 his elder brother, which they carry to the makers of the two idols, the 

 victor giving his meal to the man of the Bear clan and the elder 

 brother giving his to the man of the Deer clan. They return at 

 once to the ceremonial chamber, when the elder brother Bow priest 

 anoints their faces with a paste made of the fat of the prey animals 

 of the six regions and the rattlesnake." The *kia'punakwe rul) a red 

 pigment on the faces of the warriors and afterward apply micaceous 

 hematite over the nose and upper portion of the checks and stipple 

 it on the eyelids. Each warrior smokes until his turn comes to be 

 decorated, all appearing to be in the happiest mood. 



The pe'kwin returns to the chamber of the Bow priesthood at this 

 time and stands with his red blanket wrapped around him (he is dressed 

 in white like the other A'shiwanni). The victor takes his seat facing 

 east, on a chair placed by the elder brother Bow priest about 5 feet 

 before the cloud symbol. Leaning back in his chair he extends his 

 feet with an air as though he intends to make himself as comfortable 

 as possible for the ordeal. The elder brother Bow priest now places a 

 cloth around him, barber fashion, and stands behind the chair, pressing 

 both hands on the victor's forehead, while the pe'kwin, who is provided 

 with a small black and highly polished archaic pottery vase and an old 

 medicine bag (the vase is supposed to contain a black paint tirought 

 from the undermost world: the bag contains corn pollen), prepares 

 to paint the face. He dips a stick of yucca needle into the paint pot 

 and proceeds to color the lower portion of the face, the dividing line 

 passing under the nose and across the cheeks. He afterward applies 

 corn pollen to the upper portion by stippling with a mop of raw cot- 

 ton. A corn husk is laid over the black portion during this process 

 to protect it from the pollen. When the coloring of the victor's face 

 is completed, he rises and his elder ))rother takes his seat for the same 

 operation, during which time the victor stands north of the chair and 

 slightly before it, wearing the gravest expression possible. When the 

 pe'kwin has finished with the elder brother, the victor again takes the 

 seat and the warrior of the Ant fraternity covers the chin, upper lip, 

 end of nose, and forehead with eagle down, and a wreath of the same, 



«The Bow priesthood are the only Zunis who kill the rattlesnake. The rattle is an amulet worn as 

 a protection from the enemy, and the fat or oil of the snake is rubbed on the face, that the enemy 

 may fear the one using this grease as he fears the snake. 



