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each direction. After casting a pinch of prayer meal to each 
cardinal du-ection he laid a second feathered string {piihtabi) 
near by with feathers extended toward the point of sunrise. Just 
as the upper rim of the sun peered above the horizon he stood on 
the house-top, and shouted the following announcement^ : — 
" All people awake, open your eyes, arise. 
Become Talahoya (child of light), vigorous, active, spi-ightly. 
Hasten, Clouds, from the four world quarters. 
Come, Snow, in plenty that water may be abundant when 
summer comes. 
Come, Ice, and cover the fields that after planting they may 
yield abundantly. 
Let all hearts be glad ; 
The Wilwiltcitntii will assemble in four days. 
They will encircle the villages, dancing and singing their lays. 
Let the women be ready to pour water iipon them 
That moisture may come in abundance and all shall rejoice." 
On the morning of the fifth day following the announcement 
the priests gathered in their respective kivas. The day was called 
the 
YuNVA, Assembly. 
November 18 (first day). — Just before sunrise on this day 
(1898) Hani went into the Moiikiva carr^ang across his left arm 
his bundle of fetishes. At about the same time Siinoitiwa 
retired to the Wikwaliobi, and just at sunrise they set their stan- 
dards {natci ) on the kiva hatch. Anawita did the same on the 
Tcivatokiva which was called the Kwankiva during this cere- 
mony. Neither in 1892 nor in 1898 was any standard erected on 
the hatch of the Alkiva. The fifth of the Walpi kivas, the 
Nacabkiva was not occupied throughout the new fire observance. 
The gathering places of the four societies were as follows : — 
TatauJcyamil^ Monkiva, chief Hani (Lesma?). 
Wiiwutcimttt, WikwaUobikiva, chief Siiiioitiwa. 
Kwakicantii, Kwankiva (Tcivatokiva), chief Anawita. 
AaM, Alkiva, chiefs Ttiwasmi, Winuta. 
1 It win be seen from the text that this announcement is not only a call to the 
society to assemble, but also an invocation to the cloud, snow, and ice gods to bring 
the moisture. The last lines explain the reason the -tyomen pour water on the 
celebrants. 
