262 NAVAJO CEREMONIAL OF HASJENTI DAILJIS. 
vegetation. Their heads are ornamented with eagle plumes tied on 
with cotton cord. (Note: In all cases the round head denotes male and 
octangular head female.) The gods have also a bunch of night-owl 
feathers and eagle plumes on the lett side of the head; both male and 
female wear turquois earrings and necklaces of the same. The larynx 
is represented by the parallel lines across the blue. A line of sunlight 
encircles the head of both males and females. The white spots on the 
side of the females’ heads represent the ears. The arms of the goddesses 
are covered with corn pollen, and long ribbons of fox skins are attached 
to the wrists, as shown on painting number one, All wear beaded 
moceasins tied on with cotton cord. Their chins are covered with corn 
pollen and red sunlight surrounds the body. The skirts only have an 
additional line of blue sunlight. Hasjelti is to the east of the paint- 
ing. He carries a squirrel skin filled with tobacco. His shirt is white 
cotton and very elastic. The leggings are of white deer skin fringed, 
and the moccasins are similar to the others. His head is ornamented 
with an eagle’s tail, and to the tip of each plume there is a flufty feather 
from the breast of the eagle. A bunch of night-owl feathers is on either 
side of the eagle tail where it is attached to the head. The horizontal 
and perpendicular lines on the face were referred to in the description 
of the first sand painting. The projection on the right of the throat is 
a fox skin. Hostjoghon’s headdress is similar to that of Hasjelti’s. 
Two strips of beaver skin tipped with six quills of the porcupine are 
attached to the right of the throat. The four colored stars on the body 
are ornaments of beads. The shirt of this god is invisible; the dark is 
the dark of the body. Hostjoghon carries a staff colored black from a 
charred plant. The Navajo paint their bodies with the same plant. 
The top of the staff is ornamented with a turkey’s tail tied to the staff 
with white cotton cord; eagle and turkey plumes are alternately at- 
tached to the staff with a cord. 
The Naaskiddi are to the north and south of the painting; they carry 
sta’s of lightuing ornamented with eagle plumes and sunbeams. 
Their bodies are nude except the loin skirt; their leggings and mocea- 
sins are the same as the others. The hunch upon the back is a black 
cloud, and the three groups of white lines denote corn and other seeds 
of vegetation. Five eagle plumes are attached to the cloud backs 
(eagles live with the clouds); the body is surrounded with sunlight; 
the lines of red and blue which border the bunch upon the back denote 
sunbeams penetrating storm clouds. The black circle zigzagged with 
white around the head is a cloud basket filled with corn and seeds of 
grass. On either side of the head are five feathers of the red shafted 
flicker (Colaptes cafer); a fox skin is attached to the right side of the 
throat; the mountain sheep horns are tipped with the under tail feath- 
ers of the eagle, tied on with cotton cord. The horns are filled with 
clouds. The rainbow goddess, upon which these gods often travel, com- 
pletes the picture. 
