606 THE ZUNI INDIANS [eth. ann. 23 



The idols are carried to the ceremonial chamber, where the warriors 

 spend the night singing, the first body of A'shiwanni being present. 

 The scalp is removed from the pole for the last time by the pa'mo- 

 sona, and at midnight he and his assistant, accompanied by the elder 

 brother Bow priest and four other warriors, fully equipped, place the 

 scalps in the potter}^ vase in the scalp house. Cigarettes colored red 

 and red bread are also deposited at the scalp house as offerings to the 

 deceased Navahos. The bread is made by the i'tatononakwe out of 

 meal and water, and is colored with a red mineral. The batter is made 

 with the left hand and put upon a baking stone with the same hand. 

 To do so, they say, is awkward, but the hand which is used to prepare 

 their own food must not be used for making this bread. The stone 

 upon which it is baked is at once destroyed. Partly smoked cigarettes 

 and plume offerings are deposited at Shop"hlua yal'lakwi. 



At daylight the victor and his elder brother, each accompanied by a 

 warrior who assists in carr3ang the paraphernalia, proceed to deposit 

 the idols at their respective shrines. That of U'yuyewi is deposited at 

 Te'wan ko'han o'nan pa'nina; that of Ma*sai'lema at Shi'akia yal'lanne. 

 *•' In the olden time, the Sun Father designated the country north of 

 the road of day to U'yujxwi and that south of it to Ma'^sai'lema,'' and 

 images of these gods are accordingly placed at the shrines after the 

 scalp ceremonial. The shrines at which the idols are placed are as 

 follows: 



After a scalp ceremonial, these shrines, beginning with Te'wan 

 ko'han o'nan pa'nina and Shi'akia, are taken in rotation, the idol of 



o O from owe,, flour (wheat or corn); pom'pia, hanging. "Two girls from Shun'te'klaya were gath- 

 ering gras.ses to make baskets to hold prayer plumes, when they met the elder God of War. He invited 

 them to his house on the mountain top. Here they saw a diminutive sack of flour hanging from a 

 tree, and great was their surprise when they observed the grandmother of the gods make bread from 

 the flour in the sack. Although the woman took but the smallest quantity of the flour, she made a 

 great basket of bread from it." 



6So named because "the face and head of Ko'loowi.si (Plumed Serpent) were seen above the waters 

 at this point by the A'shiwi, who were on To'wa yiil'liinne to escape the great flood." 



c " The Gods of War killed many mountain sheep on this mountain, and the grandmother, in sweep- 

 ing the wool of the sheep from the house, swept it down the mountain side until it was quite covered 

 with wool." 



