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ceremonial blanket, and was commissioned to deposit the paho in a 
spring. As no songs were sung, and as he bore an ear of corn and 
a single paho, one would naturally have regarded this youth as a noy- 
ice, but such was not the interpretation given me by the assembly. 
When the youth returned, he carried spring water in the netted gourd, 
and still held the ear of corn. The chief took these from him and laid 
the netted gourd on a little pile of sacred meal near the altar. On the 
corn, which he deposited near by, he sprinkled sacred meal. The chief 
then took the pipe, lighted by the pipe-lighter, and smoked several 
puffs into the water, kneeling on the floor before it. He then handed 
the pipe to the young courier, who squatted at his side and smoked 
in turn. 
While this was going on, another young man, who had brought into 
the kiva a number of willow sticks as thick as a lead pencil and per- 
haps two feet long, began cutting them into small sections, allowing 
them to fall into a basket tray. After having made these sections, he 
moistened them and carried the basket out of the room, placing it on 
the roof of the kiva, so that the moistened twigs might dry in the sun. 
Later, several balls of clay, about the size of basebails, were made 
and placed in the same basket. These are the objects called the 
“frog’s young,” which I have described in my accounts of the Snake 
and Flute ceremonials at.Walpi. The Antelope chief then took a flag 
leaf, moistened it, and made an aunulet, rolling the leaf back and 
forth, in and out, and when finished he tied to it two small feathers. 
In all respects this annulet was like that carried by the Flute girls in 
the Flute ceremony or placed on the heads of the female lightning fig- 
ures on the sand picture of the Antelope altar at Walpi. It was painted 
black, and one of the netted gourds was placed upon it by the side of 
the altar. 
By this time, or about 2 oclock, all the Antelope priests had 
finished making their pahos, and laid them down, each depositing his 
prayer-sticks in his own basket tray, in front of the altar, as shown in 
plate LXXxt. 
The chief carefully swept the floor of the kiva, gathering up all 
shavings, whittlings, and fragments of herbs. This refuse was placed 
in a blanket, sprinkled with meal, and carried out. Shortly afterward 
a priest brought in all the Antelope rattles and deposited them in the 
corner of the kiva; all these objects are in his keeping, but each priest 
brought to the room all his other paraphernalia. 
THE ANTELOPE DANCE 
The Antelope dance at Cipaulovi took place in the larger plaza at 6.20 
p.m. on August 22. A kisi was erected on the southern part of this 
open space, about halfway between the central pahoki, or shrine, and 
the areades through which the priests came from their kivas. A plank, 
with a hole in it symbolizing the sipapu, was let into the ground 
