STEVENSON, ] SEVENTH DAY. 263 
Upon completion of the painting the song-priest, who stood to the 
east of it holding in his hand a bag of sacred meal, stepped carefully 
between the figures, sprinkling pollen upon the feet and heart of each. 
He then sprinkled a thread of pollen up each cheek and down the 
middle of the face of the figures, afterwards extending his right hand 
toward the east. The face of the encircling rainbow goddess was also 
sprinkled. The song-priest placed the sacred wands around the rain- 
bow, commencing on the west side of the painting, and repeated a 
prayer, pointing his finger to the head of each figure. He also placed 
a small gourd of medicine water in the hands of the rainbow goddess 
and laid a small cedar twig on the gourd. The invalid upon entering 
the lodge was handed an Apache basket containing sacred meal, which 
he sprinkled over the painting and placed the basket near the feet of 
the rainbow goddesses; the song-priest and choir sang to the accompani- 
ment of the rattle. A short time after the entrance of the invalid 
Hasjelti appeared, and taking the evergreen from the gourd dipped it 
into the medicine water and sprinkled the feet, heart, and heads of the 
sand figures, after which the invalid sat in the center of the eross. 
Hasjelti gave him a sip of the sacred water from the gourd and returned 
the gourd to its place; then he touched the feet, heart, and head of 
each figure successively with his right hand, each time touching the 
corresponding parts of the body of the invalid. Every time Hasjelti 
touched the invalid he gave a weird hoot. After he had been touched 
with sands from all the paintings the theurgist, selecting a few live 
coals from a small fire which had been kept burning near the door, 
threw them in front of the invalid, who still retained his seat in the 
center of the painting. The theurgist placed herbs, which he took from 
a buckskin bag, on the coals from which a very pleasant aroma arose. 
An attendant sprinkled water on the coals and a moment after threw 
them out of the fire opening. The song-priest gathered the wands from 
around the edge of the painting and four attendants began to erase it 
by scraping the sands from the cardinal points to the center. Again 
the people hurried to take sand from the hearts, heads, and limbs of 
the figures to rub upon themselves. The sands were gathered into a 
blanket and deposited at the base of a pifon tree about one hundred 
yards north of the lodge. A chant closed the ceremony. 
SEVENTH DAY. 
The first business of the day was the preparation of an elaborate sand 
picture, and though the artists worked industriously from dawn, it was 
not completed until after 5 o'clock. The paint grinder was kept busy 
to supply the artists. It was observed that in drawing some of the lines 
the artists used a string of stretched yarn instead of the weaving stick 
When five of the figures had been completed, six young men came into 
the lodge, removed their clothes, and whitened their bodies and limbs 
with kaolin; they then left the lodge to solicit food from the people, who 
