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the duty returned with a red flint out of whieh was shai)ed a round- 

 handled knife and consecrated to ceremonial uses. 



The ritual ,L;i\-en ])_\ .M()"-zho"-a-ki-da contains J48 lines. ili\ided 

 into 20 sections and arranged, accordini^' to suhjects. into ei^ht .groups. 

 In the story told hy Mo"-zho"-a-ki-da the ])eoi)le of the Peace-maker 

 ijens awakened in mid-heaven to a realization that the\- were a peo])le 

 when a desire came ujxm them to descend to earth where they miL^ht 

 come into bodily existence. The first three sections record the down- 

 ward journey, of the i)eo])le hndiuL; the hr>t and second heavens 

 (counting' downward) to be blank, hut in the third heaven they met 

 the Man-of-mvsterv (the .qod of raini. who ])romised them aid in 

 their stru^;^Ies upon the earth. The sixth section tells of the further 

 descent of the people, of their meeting the great Buffalo Bull who. 

 out of i)ity. gives them certain roots to use in healing their b(jdil\- 

 ailments. These medicinal roots are used to this day. The great 

 animal then gave them \arious kin(l> of corn and squash. 'I he hve 

 sections ff^'lowing speak of the journe\- of the ])eople over the earth, 

 of their coming to certain trees, to the waters of a river where the\- 

 met the snirit of waters, to water-])lants each of which the\' a(io]it a> 

 life-symbols. The next, a single section, tells of the coming of the 

 peo])le to a dead animal which they adojjt as a symbol. The signifi- 

 cance of the incident is not clear. In the next two sections is told of 

 the people ccMuing U) the center of the earth, meaning mid-summer, 

 the time greatest in fruitfulness (August), and to a "beautiful 

 house " which was to be their sanctuary. The next grou]) is a single 

 section and s])eaks of the encounter of the peojjle with another dead 

 animal (an elk), the meaning of which i-^ not clear. The next two 

 sections speak of the ])eo])le again coming to the center of the earth. 

 meaning another month (September), which, together with .\ugusi, 

 makes mid-summer. The ])eople at last reach another '" beautiful 

 house " with m;uiy openings, wherein are to be sent all the chililren 

 of the i)eople to be given their gentile personal nanie< and assigneti 

 to their pro])er places in the tribal and gentile order. 



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The year ua> .spent by Mr. j. I'. Ilarrington. (•lhno|o-i~-i. in ron- 

 tiiniation of his studies of Southwest hxlian l.angnaL^es and ethnolog\ . 

 During the tirst five months of the ciK-ndar \e;ir he was eng.igi-d in 

 the study of the \ enlureno .and otlur t humash.in dialects of (';ili- 

 tornia. I.special attention was gisin to the ethnolog\ as well ;is lo 

 the langua;.^e. the linguistic studies proving to be the ke\ to the 



