Fewkes.] 442 [Jan. 2, 
groiuKl, :iu(l wherever he did this the chiefs who followed laid 
upon it a feathered string, and added a little meal (a symbolie 
prayer), but the subordinate members of the societies simply 
sprinkled meal at these jslaces. Special joa/io were likewise placed 
at certain points ; the positions being simply de})ressions in the 
rocks with no resemblance to shrines. 
After having encircled^ the Sipaj^Hni four times the procession 
in strict silence wound its solemn way up the high bluffs of the 
mesa to the steep point at the southwest of the pueblo, and while 
still under the cliff it halted. Then some one said, " Come on, 
say something,"- and one of their number uttered some ribaldic 
words at which all laughed immoderately, and for a few moments 
the rocks re-echoed with yells. Immediately afterward the solemn 
silence was resumed and the procession wound its way up the 
stone stairway, each society returning to its own kiva. There 
the members conversed socially for some time and about midnight 
went to sleep without performing any additional ceremonies on 
this opening or assembly day. 
While the procession was filing down the mesa to the shrine 
simultaneous events were transpiring in the room where the new 
fire had been lighted. These were as follows. 
After the pine needles attached to sti'ings had been consumed, 
a young man^ lit a cedar bark torch from the ember and went to 
Wikwaliobi kiva, and ignited the fuel which had been gathered 
in or near the fireplace. He then proceeded to the Alkiva and 
the Tcivato (Kwan) kiva where he did the same, leaving the 
remainder of the torch in the fireplace of the latter. He did not 
visit the Nacab kiva as no society assembled there, and he was 
careful to see that the fire in the others was well ignited before 
he left. 
In Naacrmiya* immediately after the firemaking and its trans- 
portation to the other kivas Kakapti appeared on the trail with 
1 The circuit was sinistral, or with the center on the left lianii. 
2 Taai lalavai, come, speak. 
3 In the Naacnaiya, Avuiyo, the Kwakwaiitu tyler, carried the tire to the other 
kivas and he visited the three kivas in the order mentioned. The fate of the cedar 
bark torch (kopitcoko) in the NaacnaUja was not observed, but it was probably left 
in the Kwan kiva. After the purification, when the embers were carried out and 
thrown over the cliff, the fire was rekindled by a lighted corn cob brought from 
some neighboring house, and was not made with a match. 
*Op. cit.,i). 196. 
