30 The American Naturalist. [January, 



The above are but a few of many examples which might be 

 mentioned of ceremonies in which the circuit is followed. The 

 evidence from the use of colors substantiates that already given 

 above The priest of the Antelope Assemblage, in making 

 the sand mosaic picture in the Mung-kib-va a few days 

 before the Snake-Dance, first makes the yellow border, then 

 the green, then the red and then the white. 1 The 

 north line of the yellow is followed by the west of the same 

 color, then the south and then the east. The same sequence 

 of colors occurs when he outlines and makes the body of the 

 semicircular clouds in the centre of the mosaic (dry painting). 

 The lightning serpents of the four colors are made in the sairfe 

 order of the colors. Colored disks on small bushes are thrown 

 into the kib-va by the four persons who stand outside on the 

 morning after the Ni-rnan-kat-china. First the yellow, then 

 the green, then the red and then the white disks are thrown 

 in in this observance.' 2 



In the construction of a pathway of sand and meal across 

 the floor in the Flute Festival four materials are used which 

 correspond with the cardinal points. They are laid on the 

 floor in the sequence corresponding to the ceremonial circuit, 

 north, west, south and east. 



Six bird effigies are laid along this line composed of sand, 

 fine meal, coarse meal and corn pollen. These bird figures 



north is placed in position first, the others following the cere- 



*Wi-ki, the Antelope priest, is not always careful to folio 



the sand mosaic (dry painting), but that order is intended, and is 





: assemblage in the snake dance have the head and body of the white snake 

 ed by a green border, the green snake with a white, the yellow with a red, and 

 :d snake with a yell • necklaces of the 



