250 NAVAJO CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS. 
was sprinkled on the tube and a quantity over the pine boughs of this 
small shrine. Before sprinkling the meal on the top of the medicine 
tube the attendant waved his hand in a cirele from left to right, calling 
‘‘hooshontko;” meaning: Widespread blessings that come not from 
spoken words, but come to all, that people may have the blessings of 
corn pollen, and that tongues may speak with the softness of corn 
pollen. 
SECOND CEREMONY. 
A rug was laid in front of the theurgist. Four medicine tubes were 
placed on the rug, the one to the north end being white; the second one 
black and red, a white line dividing the two colors; the third one, blue; 
the fourth, black. The white tube was an offering to Hasjelti; the red, 
to Zaadoltjaii; the blue, to Hostjoboard; the black, to Naaskiddi, the 
hunchback. The tubes were filled as before described. These tubes 
were begun and finished by the same person. (See Pl. cxvr.) When 
the tubes were finished they were put into corn husks and bits of cotton 
cloth; tiny pieces of turquois, white shell, abalone, and archaic black 
beads having first been placed on the husks and cloths. The four tur- 
key plumes with barred tips that lay upon the rug were subsequently 
placed upon the tubes. These parcels were sprinkled by the song- 
priest with corn pollen, and after closing them he placed them in the 
hands of the invalid, who sat at the northeast corner of the rug facing 
east. The song-priest sat before him and said a long prayer, which the 
invalid repeated. At the close of the prayer an aged attendant re- 
ceived the parcels from the theurgist and placed them to the soles of 
the feet, palms, ete., of the invalid. They were afterward placed to his 
mouth and he drew from them a long breath. The old man carried the 
parcels south over the brow of a hill and deposited them in secluded 
spots about 4 feet apart, repeating a brief prayer over each one; he 
then motioned toward the east, south, west, and north, and returned to 
the lodge. During his absence the choir sang; in the meantime the 
fire in the lodge was reduced to embers. 
THIRD CEREMONY. 
About noon a circular bed of sand, some four inches in height and 
four feet in diameter, was made. Five grains of corn and five pine 
boughs were laid thereon; four of the grains of corn and four of the 
boughs were placed to the cardinal points. The fifth and center branch 
of pine covered most of the circle, its tips pointing to the east. The 
fifth grain of corn was dropped in the center of the sand bed. (See 
Pl. cxvu,1). Four of these pine boughs were cut from the east, 
south, north, and west sides of one tree. The fifth bough may be taken 
from any part of the tree. Of the five grains of corn one must be 
white, one yellow, and one blue, and the other two grains may be of 
either of these three colors. On this particular occasion there were 
