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underworltl, some distance apart, facing each other before the 
flowery mound (Sitcomovi^) on which sits MilyimoUJi. The 
youth called to the girl his sister 
i-ci-icai-ya iX-mi nilkuc ma-nn. 
My sister you are nasty maid. 
She resented this in pretended anger, and after quarrelling for 
some time in jest they poured water on each other, and " thus we 
do hoping rain would come." 
ToTOKYA, Sleeps. 
November 16 (fourth day). — About a half hour before sun- 
rise the lFmow<t'«/i^w passed through the pueblos, advancing with 
the sidelong movement. They did not wear ceremonial para- 
phernalia, but were dressed in the ordinary way. About noon 
they again came out of the kiva, but this time they were arrayed' 
in gorgeous dress described in my account of the Xaacnaiya. 
The Alosaka accompanied the procession. The drummer led, and 
behind him came the man bearing the moisture tablet (pavaio- 
kaci) which is figured in my account of Naacnaiya. In his 
right hand he carried a staff with dependent string and red 
horse hair. At intervals he shouted : — 
i-na miX-i yoh{i) va ni:^ 
My father, you rain fall, make may. 
O father (sun) pour water on us. 
Fourteen nude Tataukyamd paraded through the pueblo on 
the same afternoon. They bore on their backs, breasts, upper 
arms, and thighs figures of laioa {y\x\\a,),katci (penis), and phallic 
devices. Sixteen other members of this societ}^ likewise paraded, 
singing, however, different songs. The hair of the members of 
each group was brought into knots in front above theu- fore- 
heads, and decorated Avitli corn husks. Each cai-i-ied an ear 
' Atkya sitconiovi: utkija, below, under world ; si, flower ; tcoMo, mouud ; ovi, place 
of ; the flower mound of the below. The name of the pueblo, Sitcomovi, I suppose to 
have a similar derivation, viz., place of the flower mound. There was possibly a 
mound on its present site where some flower (si) grew when it was built. 
2 The termination ni has a potential force here as in yau-kau-ta-nl ; strong^ make 
may ; mu-i is the second personal pronoun ; i-na may be i, my, na-a, root, father ; my 
father ( Taiva, the sun ) . I-na sometimes means simply us ; and if used ih that sense 
here the sentence would read; us, you, rain cause, may; a free translation would be, 
cause rain to come by pouring water on us. 
