l^ewkes.J 430 tJan.2, 
This smoke talk, in the unabbreviated ceremonials, snake, 
tlute, etc., is sixteen days before the final exhibition, oi- rather 
the announcement on the following morning is sixteen days from 
the close of the ceremony. In these great nine days' ceremonials 
the first day is not considered a ceremonial day so that there are 
but eight active cei'emonial days. We have then sixteen days, 
between the announcement and culmination of an unabbreviated 
observance, which shows the marked influence of four world 
quarter worship. In abbreviated rites there are but five days of 
ceremony, one of which, the first, does not count as a ceremonial 
day, which leaves the mystic number four. Wmoiitcimti as an 
abbreviated rite has four days of active ceremony and one (the 
first) assembly day. The call for the assembly was eight days 
before the culmination of the ceremony instead of sixteen as in 
the elaborate presentation of the same called Naacnaiya. 
After having ceremonially smoked and prayed they engaged in 
conversation, at the close of which Hani filled the pipe anew, lit 
it, and carried it to Hoiiyi's mother's house, where Hoiija was 
lying down. Hani formally told him to announce publicly on 
the morrow at daylight that in four days the assembly of the 
Wmoiltcrmti would take place, and gave him the feathered strings, 
which Hoiiyi took, thanked Hani, and laid down to sleep. 
Public Axnouxcement. 
At the faintest dawn of sunrise [kilyanuiptu)^ on Nov. 9, Honyi 
went to the small gap (Hilcicovi) at the northeast of Walpi, and 
there laid the long feathered string {piihtabi) upon the trail. 
He then prayed (homoi/a), and cast a pinch of meal to the point 
on the horizon where the sun rises. He returned to his mother's 
house, and on entering it cast meal in. a sinistral circuit to each 
of the world quarters. He so placed six nakwaktcoci on the floor 
that they radiated from a common center, one corresponding to 
1 Talavwiya or sunrise has the following divisions : — 
Talti; first glimpse of light. 
K-Hyailnuptu ; kutca, white ; wunilptU. 
Talaove ; tala, light. 
iHkyarlnuptu ; sikyan, yellow. 
Tawakilyiva ; tawa, sun ; kiiyiva, appear*. 
Tawayama ; sunrise (sun above the horizon). 
