MALLERY. ] JUGGLER LODGE. Hild 
tion without the authority of living Micmae and Abnaki Indians, to 
whom it was significant. 
Figs. 717 and 718, however, when studied, recall the use of branches 
and prayer plumes in the descriptions of the houses, and especially 
of the kivas of the Pueblos and the forms of their consecration men- 
Fic. 718.—Jugegler lodge. Micmac. 
tioned in the study of the Pueblo Architecture, by Mr. Victor Mindeleff, 
in the Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, as follows: 
It is difticult to elicit intelligent explanation of the theory of the baho and the 
prayer ceremonies in either kiva or house construction. The bahoisa prayer token; 
the petitioner is not satisfied by merely speaking or singing his prayer; he must 
have some tangible thing upon which to transmit it. He regards his prayer as a 
mysterious, impalpable portion of his own substance, and hence he seeks to embody 
it in some object which thus becomes consecrated. The baho, which is inserted in 
the roof of the kiva, is a piece of willow twig about 6 inches long, stripped of its 
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Fie. 719.—Moki ceremonial. 
bark and painted. From it hang four small feathers suspended by short cotton 
strings tied at equal distances along the twig. In order to obtain recognition from 
the powers especially addressed, different colored feathers and distinct methods of 
attaching them te bits of wood and string are resorted to. 
The characters in Fig. 719 are copied from a drawing on the rocks 
