248 NAVAJO CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS. 
After the pine-bough wreaths had been separated the bits of yueea 
strings were picked up by the attendant and handed to Naiyenesgony, 
who held them over the sick man’s head, after which the bits were 
again divided with the knife. After the ten songs and prayers had 
been chanted the invalid left the rug and sat a little to the northeast 
of it, with his knees drawn up. The song priest placed two live coals 
in front of the invalid and sprinkled chopped herbs on the coals, the 
fumes of which the invalid inhaled. The pines were carried off and 
placed in the shade of a pine tree, that the disease might not leave the 
pine and return to the invalid. 
FOURTH CEREMONY. 
The personators of Hasjelti and Hostjoghon adorned themselves for 
the ceremony. Hasjelti wore ordinary clothing and a red scarf, with a 
silver belt around the waist. Hostjoghon’s body was painted white, 
and he wore a red woolen scarf around the loins, caught on with a 
silver belt. A rug, composed of a blanket and a piece of white cotton, 
was spread in front of the song priest, and the masks of Hasjelti and 
Hostjoghon placed thereon. (See Pl. oxy, 4, 5, 6.) 
Upon the completion of the toilets of the personators of the gods 
they hurried from the lodge, bearing their masks with them, when aun 
attendant made a cavity immediately in front of the rug 4 inches in 
diameter, and the song priest sprinkled a circle of meal around the 
cavity. The invalid entered the lodge and stood on the rug and 
removed all of his clothing except the breech cloth. He then took his 
seat facing east, with knees drawnup. A mask of the Hostjobokon, 
which had been laid upon the rug, was drawn over the invalid’s head. 
Hasjelti and Hostjoghon appeared at this juncture bearing a pine 
bough some 5 feet in height. An attendant made gestures over the 
sick man, holding in his right hand a pinch of sacred meal, which was 
afterward placed in the cavity. Hasjelti waved the pine bough five 
times around the invalid and planted it in the cavity, where it was held 
in place by the gods. Then bending its top, the attendant attached it 
to the mask over the invalid’s head by a buckskin string which was 
fastened to the mask. The song priest and choir all the while sang ¢ 
weird chant. The gods raised the bough, gave their peculiar hoots, 
and disappeared from the lodge, carrying with them the pine bough 
with the mask attached to it. In afew minutes they came back with 
the mask. After the chant the song-priest placed meal on the soles of 
the invalid’s feet, knees, palms, breast, back, shoulders, and head, and 
then put some in the cavity, after which the cavity was filled with 
sarth. Two coals were laid in front of the invalid, and upon these the 
song priest placed finely broken herbs; an attendant sprinkled water 
on the herbs, and the invalid inhaled the fumes. The cotton cloth was 
'Continency must be observed by the personators of the gods until all paint is removed from their 
hodies. 
