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At the fourth station niaiiy thi-oats are cut. It is now about 4 

 o'clock in the afternoon (the fifjht havin<; begun about 3). And so ou 

 through the fifth and sixth stations. At the seventh station the o'pi 

 seize the white scouts who have been encouraging tlie warriors all this 

 time, and castrate them. (They wore their guts of blood concealed 

 in their brcechdoths.) Masewi and his brother 2-un up with theLi- 

 flints and bows and apply them to the disfigured k'a"'tsiiia, but they 

 continue to sit, rocking back and forth, in great pain. 



Wien the fighting is finished at the seventh place, boys arrive from 

 the house of the Antelope clan with baskets of prayer sticks which 

 have been made by the Antelope people. Each basket contains a 

 ball of cotton with beads inside. The opi and the men who tend 

 the barricade carry their own prayer sticks with them. The o'pi 

 have taken the clubs away from the k'a-'tsina. Each person has 

 foiu prayer sticks tied in a com husk with com meal. The Antelope 

 jnen go to the baskets and get their prayer sticks and give them to the 

 warrior k'a-'tsina, placing them in their hands and holding then- own 

 underneath, praj-ing. They also divide the cotton ball of beads 

 among them. A big smoke fire is built on the west of the mesa, to 

 recall the sentinels. The o'pi and the barricade men give their prayer 

 sticks to the warrior, or to the friendly k'a'tsina. The Antelope 

 women trj" to give their sticks to theii- husbands. Now the k'a-'tsina, 

 both friendly and hostile, depart, the friendly ones going north, south, 

 and east to their respective homes, the warriors descending the trail 

 back of the church, accompanied by the red and white scouts. The 

 Antelope people go to their house; the o'pi to Mauharots. The ba'- 

 ricade men dismantle the screen (the ai'tcin'), return any skins they 

 may have borrowed to their owners, and take the poles to theu' homes. 

 The Antelope men midress at theu' house, remove the paint frotn theii' 

 bodies, and lay their yasi in a pile. A day or so later some boys 

 take these ya'si to the foot of the mesa and throw them mto a cleft 

 in the rocks or bury them. 



When the k'a''tsina arrive at the bottom of the mesa they unmask 

 and go out west where they eat and rest. They return to the pueblo 

 sometime after dark, go to their estufas, put their masks away, and 

 go home. 



Evei-yone who takes part in this ceremonj' may not sleep with his 

 (or her) mate for eight days before the fight and for eight days after. 

 No participant may eat meat or salt for four days before, except 

 women who are nursing children. Everyone may eat meat and salt 

 on the day of the fight.'* 



"' II is believed that bad luck or some great misfortune would befall anyone who violated this food ordi- 

 DaDoe. Someone would be killed or have some bones broken in the fight, perhaps; but uu the day of the 

 conflict they eat meat to give them strength. 



