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they do, and after Rprinkling people immerse their hands and then 

 draw them out in a sweeping gesture as if drawing something to 

 themselves, the something being understood to be the bits offered in 

 the river of watermelons, melons, corn, etc., from the moiety bimdles.) 



The chief of the Black Eyes has a bundle of black paint (koafunto), 

 the chief of the shure' a bundle of red (pari').^^ The men present line 

 up by moiety, each passing his moiety chief and helping himself to a 

 bit of paint which he proceeds with index finger and thumb to snap up 

 toward the sun, at the same time asking for what he wants — long life, 

 crops, et<". After the first roimd by all present there is a second in 

 which the paint is snapped in the five directions. On the third round 

 the paint is applied to the man's own face in a spot or line under the 

 eyes. . . . 



Now the limch everybody has brought with him in a napkin is 

 eaten, everybody as usual dropping crumbs in his right hand to 

 Wffiide, in his left, to the dead. The five Fathers who have been 

 fasting now eat also. In fact, the lunch at large is thought of as a 

 kind of accompaniment to the lunch of the fasting Fathers — "We help 

 them eat." 



The town chief tells the men to walk back to town. Little boys 

 have alread.y started back with the wagons. The men go by moiety. 

 The town chief walks ahead, under his blanket sprinkling meal, making 

 the road. After him walk the chief of the Black Eyes and his assist- 

 ants. Then kumpa and war chief, then the Black Eyes at large. 

 At the head of the shure' walk their chief, his assistants, and the 

 assistants of kumpa and war chief. Each moiety chief carries his 

 tawenide. All the Fathers sing, different songs in each moiety. . . . 

 As the Mexicans pass them on their o-niile walk they say, "The 

 Indians have run the water with prayer; we are going to have a good 

 year." 



The procession halts at the railroad crossing, near the drainage 

 ditch. The women watch it from the housetops. Two Black Eye 

 boys fetch the dark-colored drum of the Black Eyes and their turtle 

 shell rattle (pa'kwara); '^ and two shure' boys fetch the red drum of 

 the shure' and their gourd rattles. The war captains have to use the 

 drums and in each moiety six men are appointed to use their respective 

 rattles. They start into town, singing, drumming, and rattling. The 

 women come out to meet them. The women breathe on the meal 

 they have carried with them and throw it toward the tawenide. Black 

 Eye women throwing toward the Black Eye bundle, shure' women 

 toward the shure' bundle. Then the women of each moiety fall into 

 position between the moiety chief and the other Fathers and the 

 moiety men members. As they aU proceed, the women move their 



" See i)p. 320, 335. 



" Tin belLs are strung into holes around the shell. The 1 



