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For the third time the white scouts (go-'maiowic) enter the pueblo. 

 The red scouts meet tliem halfway up the mesa and overhear their 

 conversation. Then they run on ahead to the plaza, and announce 

 to the war chief, in alarm, that the white scouts are making threats, 

 that all the people in the village are to he killed, or taken captive to 

 Wenimats', etc. When the white scouts arrive in the plaza the red 

 scouts fall upon them and disarm them. The white scouts become 

 verj' angry, and for the first time threaten everyone. Then they 

 start to run away. The red scouts give chase and take their mocca- 

 sins away from them. The white scouts throw rocks and make 

 threats as they retreat to Wenimats'. 



Then the people in the village prepare for the fight in earnest. The 

 Antelope people paint themselves pink all over their bodies; their 

 faces are painted with ya'katca (reddish brown) with stcamirn 

 (black, sparkling) put on over the red under the eyes. They wear 

 long breechcloths. Each has a cpai'ak' (soft eagle feather) in his 

 hair. The women have their faces, hands, and arms painted yellow 

 with corn pollen. They wear mantas, buckskin leggings, and mocca- 

 sins. The o'pi paint their faces black above the mouth and white 

 below (like Masewi). They wear buckskin shirts over their regular 

 shirts; a hai'acon (feather) hangs from their hair in the back; eagle 

 down (waBon') covers their heads and eyebrows; buckskin skirts 

 (ho'tsi'ni) tied at the top with a woman's belt, red buckskin leggings 

 above their moccasins that reach almost to the knee, legs painted white 

 from leggings to sldrt. The Antelope people carry ya-si (wooden 

 cane); the o^pi are armed wdth flints and knives. 



When the white scouts return to the west for the third time the 

 warrior k'a-'tsina prepare to attack the pueblo. They separate, 

 going by twos, so that only friends or brothers wall see each other don 

 his mask. They first pray with their prayer sticks. Then they put 

 on their masks and new moccasins; they wrap the old ones in the masjc 

 sheet and tie them to their belts. They start running toward the 

 west, then, yelling. A^Tien they have come together in a group they 

 turn about and start for Acoma, running. Some distance west of 

 Acoma there was a mesa which they had to cross. At one point there 

 was a deep narrow chasm over which the k'a-'tsina had to leaj), one 

 at a time, as the passage was cjuite narrow. One k'a-'tsina was 

 stationed on the east side of this fissure to see that they crossed in 

 order. (Once, however, two warriors collided just as they were about 

 to make the jump. Both fell down the deep chasm and were killed. 

 The others could not stop to help them; the bodies lay there until 

 nightfall. Their bodies were never returned to their homes but were 

 buried secretly.) As the warriors near the pueblo they wrench small 

 trees and shrubs from the ground and brandish them fiercely, yelling 

 all the while. 



