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other side of the room, and covered with an identifying cloth. No 

 one knows what mask the other is to wear, for one might take advan- 

 tage of his opportimity during the fight to kill a man he did not like, 

 and no one woidd know who did it. On the day of the fight, however, 

 brothers or close friends arrange to recognize each other by the 

 style or design of theu' moccasins, or some other sign, so that they 

 may stay together during the fight to help each other. 



On the sixth day each warrior k'a-'tsina kills a sheep— his own if 

 he has them, if not, he must buy one. He saves the blood in a clean 

 bowl. The blood from the heart he puts in a gut and seals it up. 

 He will wear this about his neck during the fight. The mutton is 

 saved for the feast on the eighth day. The blood which he has 

 saved in the bowl is mixed with guayave (a com bread) and tallow 

 and boiled with the sheep's head. This is eaten on the seventh day. 

 The gut of blood is concealed \mtil the day of the fight. 



During these days the O'pi pray night and morning in the different 

 directions and in the hole in the wall of each estufa. (See sections 

 on estufas.) The Antelope people are making preparations for the 

 defense of the village. 



On the evening before the fight the governor (dapop) appomts 

 men to serve as sentinels (giiawactu) to see that no one approaches 

 the village during the ceremony. They set out early in the moniing, 

 two for K'atsi'm° (the Enchanted Mesa), two go about 5 miles south 

 of Acoma, two north of Acoma, near the spring G'o'mi, and two at 

 Dyaits Ko't (Pinyon Mountain), southwest of Acoma. These men 

 are those who did not wish to serve as k'a"'tsina warriors and who 

 are not members of the Antelope clan. They take lunches with them, 

 which they receive from the war chief's cooks. One could not refuse 

 to serve as sentinel without very good reason. On top of the mesa, 

 during the ceremony, some of the officers of the pueblo, the Ueuten- 

 ants, bickales, etc., keep watch with field glasses. 



Shortly after midnight of the seventh day all the warrior k'a-'tsina 

 leave their homes, taking a limch with them. They tell their wives 

 and mothers good-by, for they may not retm-n again. They go to 

 their estufas, get their masks and descend the mesa, going west. 

 They go out about 3 miles from the pueblo. They keep their masks 

 concealed. They have new moccasms wrapped up so no one can 

 see them. 



Early in the morning of the eighth day two red go'maiowic arrive 

 in the pueblo, crying "Ah-a-a-a i\i'!," the w'ar cry. The war chief 

 meets them. The red scouts warn him that the k'a"'tsina will soon 

 come and destroy the village and ad\ise him to prepare defense. 

 Then several friendly k'a"'tsina are seen walking about the \illage. 

 There were two k'akuipe who lived at the foot of the mesa to the 

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