258 NAVAJO CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS. 
bather by the attendant. The bather covered his body with the suds, 
and the contents of the jug was emptied on the floor of the lodge by the 
attendant. The man dressed himself in the ordinary cotton clothing 
with rare beads around his neck, and a leather pouch held by a band 
of mountain sheep skin over his shoulders; he knelt before a bow] of 
white kaolin which he spread over his face; he then took his seat be- 
tween two attendants, the one to the right of him holding a pinch of 
native tobacco and the one on the left holding corn meal in the palms of 
the right hands. 
At early dawn the buffalo robe at the entrance of the lodge was slightly 
dropped from the doorway to admit the rays of approaching day. The 
masks which had been sung and prayed over all night were laid away 
in the niche behind the song-priest. The little girl who performed the 
previous night returned to the lodge, but I could not see that she was 
there for any purpose save to eat some of the remaining food, which 
had been gathered into two large parcels and left by the old woman 
who removed the vessels after the feast. A red blanket was laid and 
upon it a piece of white cotton. A reed five inches in length and twice 
the diameter of the others heretofore used was prepared. The reed 
was colored black in the usual manner and filled with a feather ball 
and tobacco. It was lighted with the crystal and touched with the 
pollen. Upon the completion of the tube the invalid took his seat on 
the west side of the rug, the attendant who prepared the tube sitting on 
the west side; he took from one pouch four white shell beads and from 
another a turquoise bead ; he looped a cord of white cotton yarn some 
three feet long around the pollen end of the tube and fastened to the 
loop two wing feathers of the Arctic blue bird, one from the right wing 
and one from the left, and a tail feather from the same bird and three 
feathers from a bird of yellow plunage, the right and left wing and tail 
feather. The five beads were strung on the string, the turquoise 
being the first put on; these were slipped up the cord and two under 
tail-feathers and a hair from the beard of the turkey were fastened to the 
end of the string with a loop similar to that which attached it to the tube. 
(See Pl. cx1x.) This was the great (cigarette) offering to Hasjelti and 
must be placed in a canyon neara spring, for all birds gather at the waters. 
This was offered that the song-priest might have his prayers passed 
straight over the line of song. This offering secures the presence of 
this most valued god and so fills the mind of the song-priest with song 
and prayer that it comes forth without hesitation and without thought, 
so that he may never have to think for his words. A small quantity of 
each variety of sand used in decorating was placed on a husk with a 
little tobacco, and on these a pinch of corn pollen; the tube was then 
laid on the husk and the string and feathers carefully placed. Two 
additional feathers, the under tail of the eagle and turkey, were laid on 
the husk. A blue feather was dipped in water, then in pollen, and 
rubbed twice over these feathers; an attendant folded the parcel and 
