FEWKES] ANTELOPE DANCE AND SNAKE RACE 283 
As a rule the Snake priests were appareled similarly to those of 
Walpi, but the whole face was painted black, with white under the chin 
and on the neck. Their cheeks were not smeared with the micaceous 
hematite which gives such a hideous appearance to the Walpi performers. 
After the thirteen Snake men had lined up before the eleven Ante- 
lopes, who all the time were shaking their rattles, a low song began, the 
Antelopes being the singers. As the song progressed the Snake men 
locked arms and stepped backward and forward, while two men, an 
Antelope and a Snake, ambled backward and forward between the lines 
of swaying priests. They went to the kisi or cottonwood bower and 
returned to the head of the lines several times. The Antelope priest 
then took from the kisi the wad of cornstalks and vines and put it in 
his mouth, as the Walpi priests do the snake. The Snake priest accom- 
panied him, placing his left hand on the shoulder of his companion and 
acting as the ‘“‘hugger.” In this way the two men pranced slowly 
between the lines of swaying priests, who stepped forward and back- 
ward one step, the Antelopes singing and shaking their rattles. The 
carrier held the wad in his mouth like a pipe, and after a few courses 
he was relieved by another priest. After this was continued several 
times, the wad was returned to the kisi, the asperger sprinkled water, 
and the Snake and Antelope priests filed away in turn, each making 
circuits of the plaza. No warrior with a whizzer accompanied the pro- 
cession, and although one of the Antelopes wore a garland of cotton- 
wood leaves, he did not call out at the kisi the foreign words, ‘‘ Tcamahia, 
awahia,” ete. 
THE SNAKE RACE 
On the morning of August 23, before daybreak, the Antelope priests 
sang their songs and consecrated the trays of pahos before the altar. 
I regret to record that I was too late to see this ceremony, although I 
reached the kiva before sunrise. There is every probability that the 
songs rendered at that time correspond with the sixteen songs, with 
dramatic accompaniment, which I have observed at Walpi, but as pahos 
were not made in numbers on previous days, it is not probable that a 
similar ceremony occurred on the other mornings. 
When I arrived at the pueblo from my camp near the spring, the 
“Snake race” was already taking place in the valley between Cipaulovi 
and Cunopavi, and all the Antelope priests were seated on the rocky 
ledge west of the kiva watching for the return of the racers. The race 
was well attended, many young men from Miconinovi and Cipauloyvi 
contending, and its termination was clearly visible from the mesa top. 
It presented no important differences from the Snake race at the other 
villages; the winner ran up the trail past the Antelope kiva, and the 
prize seemed to be simply the reputation which it gave him as a runner. 
Direetly after the return of the racers, a number of boys and girls, 
who had been standing on the edge of the lower terrace, where lies the 
trail along which the racers approached the pueblo, started all together 
