548 RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE ZUNI CHILD. 
face with a blanket, so as not to see the women as he passes. On the 
fifth day they go on a rabbit hunt, the capture of but one rabbit being 
necessary. The rabbit is carried to the He-i-i-que (or Kiva of the North) 
by the ‘Si-'si tki, who, after skinning the rabbit, fills the skin with cedar 
bark ; a pinch of meal is placed for the heart and the eye sockets are 
filled with mica; a hollow reed is passed through the inside filling to 
the mouth. The sixth day the inmates of the kivas again go for wood; 
the seventh day large Te-lik-tki-na-we are made of eagle plumes; the 
eighth day is consuined in decorating the masks to be worn. As these 
people have not the art of mixing their pigments so as to be permanent, 
masks and altars have to be freshly decorated before using; and, when 
the masks are completely decorated, they, with the other paraphernalia, 
are carried on the same day by the men and youths who have to wear 
them to some secluded nooks among the rocks, a distance from the 
town, where they put them on, returning to the village by early moon- 
light. 
The impressive ceremonial of initiating the youth into the order of 
the Kok-k0 occurs but once in four years. No male child above the age 
of four years may, after death, enter the Kiva of the Kok ko unless 
he has received the sacred breath of the Kok-k6. Those who personate 
the Kok-k6 are endowed for the time being with their actual breath. 
Besides the Si-li-mo-bi-ya of the North, West, South, East, Heavens, 
and Earth, and a number of younger brothers who appear on this occa- 
sion, there are Pa-oo-ti-wa (Plate XX), father of the Sun, ten Ko-ye-me- 
‘shi, and the K6-16-00-wit-si. 
The Sii-li-mo-bi-ya of the North wear yellow (hlap-si-na) masks; those 
from the West, blue (hli-iin-na); those from the South, red (shi-l0.a) ; 
those from the East, white (k0-han) ; those from the Heavens, all colors 
(1-t0 po-niin-ni); those from the Earth, black (quin-na). (Plate X XI.) 
These colors represent the cardinal points, the zenith, and the nadir: 
North. Yellow. Hlip-si-na. 
West. Blue. Hli-iin-na. 
South. ted. Shi-lo-a. 
East. White. Ko-han. 
Heavens. All colors. J-t0-po-niin-ni. 
Earth. Black. Quin-na. 
They come after sundown to the village. The serpent, made of hide, 
is about twelve feet long and eighteen inches through the thickest part 
of the body. The abdomen is painted white, the back black, covered 
with white stars, which are represented by a kind of semicircle, an en- 
tirely conventional design. The neck rests through a finely decorated 
kind of altar carried by the two Soot-ike. The tail end of the fetich is 
held by the priest of the K0-10-00-wit-si, who constantly blows through a 
large shell which he carries in the right hand, holding the serpent with 
the left. The Kok-k6 pass through the town and visit each kiva; they 
put the head of the serpent through the hatchway, that those who are 

