FEWKES] THE CIPAULOVI SNAKE DANCE 285 
The Antelope priests made four circuits of the plaza, in the space to 
the southward and eastward of the shrine and kisi, shaking their 
rattles as they marched, and dropping a pinch of sacred meal in the 
shrine as they passed it. Each man stamped on the plank before the 
kisi, dropping meal as he did so, and then the whole line formed a pla- 
toon facing eastward, where they stood shaking their rattles. 
Immediately the Snake men followed, making four circuits of the 
plaza, their course being much longer than that of the Antelope priests. 
As each priest passed before the kisi in these circuits, he stamped on 
the plank, after having dropped upon it a pinch of sacred meal. They 
then lined up in front of the Antelope priests, and sang songs similar to 
those at Walpi. There was no call, however, to the warrior gods by an 
asperger. Among other episodes at Cipaulovi, I missed that quivering 
movement of the snake whips, elsewhere described. 
The line of Snake men next divided into groups of three—each trio 
composed of a “carrier,” a “hugger,” and a “gatherer.” The carrier 
knelt down before the kisi, received a snake from a man within, put it 
in his mouth, and began the circuit of the plaza. He did not close his 
eyes, as do the performers at Walpi, and the hugger simply placed one 
hand on his shoulder. The carrier did not touch the snake, as at 
Oraibi, after he had placed it in his mouth; and, instead of throwing 
the reptile from him when he had completed the circuit, he took it out 
of his mouth and laid it on the ground at a certain place. The gatherer 
picked up the snake, not confining his attention to the carrier whom he 
followed, and not first throwing meal to the sun or sprinkling it on the 
reptile, as at Oraibi. As the carrier started on his circuit, he tucked 
his paho in his belt. The pahos used at Walpi were made by the Snake 
priests; those employed at Cipaulovi were made by the Antelope chief 
and given to the Snake men. 
As the snake carrier left the his?, in his circuit, the asperger sprinkled 
him with medicine, but no maidens stood near to throw prayer-meal 
upon them, as at Walpi. After all the snakes had been carried in 
the mouths of participants in the dance, the Snake chief made a circle 
of sacred meal about 20 feet in diameter in front of the pahoki, and drew 
in 1t six meal radii, corresponding to the six cardinal points. The rep- 
tiles were then thrown into this ring, and the asperger sprinkled them 
with medicine, after which the maidens and women threw sacred meal 
from their basket plaques upon the writhing mass. At a signal the 
Snake priests rushed to the reptiles, seized as many as they could, and, 
as at Walpi, departed hastily down the mesa trails and distributed 
them to the cardinal points. As they left the plaza, a perfect rain of 
spittle from the spectators on the surrounding housetops followed them. 
The subsequent vomiting and feast differed in no essential particulars 
from the same episodes at Walpi. 
There were among the spectators numerous prominent Snake men from 
Walpi, including Kopeli the Snake chief, Supela his father, and Saliko 
