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Now is the time they will sit aroiand, telling tales. If any one is 

 sleepy, the chief gives liim pennission to sleep. 



The second and third days and nights are passed sunilarly. Each 

 morning, at simrise, the women will fetch water from the river, the 

 chief giving to the senior Mother a prayer stick (fig. 9) to cast into the 

 water when she asks the water people for their water. On the return of 

 the Mother the water jar is placed in the center of the floor, and from 

 Ms usual seat by the fireplace the cliief thanks the woman, also the 

 water people. Then one of the male assistants gives the chief a 

 cigarette to smoke in circuit and toward the river, thanking the 

 water people with smoke. The chief concludes with breathing on 



his own clasped hands and 

 with them making the ritual 

 circuit, saying that the water 

 people are sending all pres- 

 ent long life and health. 



The third evening the mes- 

 senger for the yucca retm-ns. 

 The chief makes a road of 

 meal for him from the door 

 to the meal basket and on 

 it the messenger follows the 

 chief to the basket where he 

 gets meal, waves it in the 

 directions, throws it toward 

 the sun. The chief takes 

 his seat by the fireplace, 

 beside him, the messenger. 

 The chief thanks him and 

 the chief assistant gives each 

 of them a cigarette. Both 

 smoke in the directions and 

 to the sun. AH present are 

 now given permission to walk about and smoke. The messenger 

 may leave and rest, if he wishes. 



It is the fourth day. In the morning between four and five the 

 chief starts for the river, the others following in line. In line they 

 stand on the river bank. Each breathes on the meal he has taken 

 with him and tlu-ows some of it to the sim; the rest he moves in the 

 directions and throws into the running water. This rite is to ask the 

 sun when he turns southward ^ "that they will be hving" (? i.e., 

 live long). They wash their faces and hands and return in line to 

 their house. 



Figure 9. — Prayer stick for woman to give Water people 

 when she fetches water 



i Pachi'uretoe; or northward, kofinuwetoe. 



