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ears of corn to the palms of the hands, she holding the corn in her 
palms and pressing it to the palms of the girl’s hands. Hasjelti formed 
across on the breast with the meal and Hostjoboard pressed the two 
ears of corn to the breast; a cross was made on the back and the two 
ears of corn pressed to the back. Hasjelti, with his right hand, then 
drew a line on the girl’s left shoulder, and with his left hand a line on 
the girl’s right shoulder, the corn being pressed to the shoulders in the 
manner deseribed. Two lines of meal were run over the forehead back 
to the top of the head, and the two ears of corn pressed to the top of 
head. The boys were nude but the girls were gayly dressed in blankets, 
jewelry, ete. At the close of this ceremony the representatives of the 
gods removed their masks and called upon the children to raise their 
heads. The amazement depicted upon the faces of the children when 
they discovered their own people and not gods afforded much aiuse- 
ment to the spectators. The masks were laid upon a blanket and the 
girls and boys were commanded to look upon them. Hostjoboard 
placed her mask upon the face of each boy and girl and woman in the 
line, beginning at the north end of the line, giving a hoot each time 
the mask was placed upon anyone. Great care was taken that the 
mask should be so arranged upon the face that the eyes might look 
directly through the eyeholes, for should any blunder occur the sight 
of at least one eye would be lost. It is scarcely on before it is removed. 
After the masks had been placed on all the faces it was laid beside 
Hasjelti’s. The man personating Hasjelti sprinkled his mask and then 
Hostjoboard’s with pollen, and the man personating Hostjoboard 
sprinkled Hasjelti’s mask and then his own with pollen. The boy to 
the north end of the line was called out and from the pollen bag took 
a pinch of pollen and sprinkled first the mask of Hasjeiti and then 
Hostjoboard’s. This was repeated by each boy, girl, and woman in the 
line. In approaching the masks they always pass back of the line 
around to the north side and then step in front of the masks. The 
mask is sprinkled in this wise: A line of pollen is run from the top of 
the head down to the mouth; passing around to the right the line is 
drawn upward over the left cheek; the hand continues to move outside 
of the mask to a point below the right cheek, then up the right cheek. 
The younger children’s hands were guided by the representatives of the 
gods. It would be a great fatality to sprinkle a drop of meal over the 
eye holes; the individual committing such an error would become blind 
at least in one eye. Great care is also taken that the line is run up the 
cheek, for if it was run down not only would vegetation be stunted, but 
the lives of the people would become so, as all people and things should 
aim upward not downward. The line running down through the center of 
the face calls upon the gods above to send down rain upon the earth 
and health to all people. Two or three children started through igno- 
rance to run the meal down one of the cheeks; they were instantly 
stopped by Hasjelti, but not until the people looking on had expressed 
