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Dance in the Monkiva. 
A fragment of a secret ceremonial was observed on the fourth 
night in this kiva. At 9.80 all the TataukyamH. withdrew to the 
spectators' part of the room and the WuwiXtcimtlX carae in, 
costumed as during the day processions. They were led by a 
drummer, but the man with a moisture tablet was absent. They 
arranged themselves in a double crescentic line about the fire- 
place, Stliioitiwa standing at the south end of the inner line, and 
Soyoko at the north end of the outer. After dancing for about 
ten minutes Siinoitiwa passed his badge (keltsahwa) to his neighbor 
on the left, and went up the ladder with the remark, ilm-yu-kau- 
jpm-i-ni^ may strength be with all assembled.' The dance con- 
tinued, the lines moving sidewise from i-ight to left and back, 
and the one to whom Stliioitiwa had passed the badge handed it 
to his left hand neighbor, and likewise left the room following 
his chief with the words given above. 
This continued until all but six of their number left ; these then 
ceased singing and with the formal greeting to those remaining 
went up the ladder and passed to the kiva of their society. This 
was repeated by the WmoiltcimtO, at midnight, six persons being 
the last to leave as on the previous occasion. 
An hour or thereabout after the departure the simultaneous 
celebration of the rites about the medicine bowl began in all the 
kivas. These rites^ were as follows : — 
At about one p. m. the members of the AaltH made a six- 
directions (cloud charm) altar, in front of the tiponi altar and 
celebrated the invocation to the six cardinal points. At about 
the same time the KwakioantH chief dropped a handful of meal 
1 Etiquette requires one enteriug a kiva to say as lie places one foot on the rtoor, 
while yet the other is on the last rung of the ladder, " hin-kivai-kwat-ye-si," to which 
those within the room resjiond, " kwa-kivat-ai," or the more formal greeting, 
" un)^yu-kau-yun-4-ni." 
•The time foi their inception was determined by the position of the Pleiades, and 
during the songs watchmen or tylers, muffled up in their blankets, sat at the 
entrances to the kivas. While there was a general likeness in these songs there was 
much variation in details and the son^s were different, those of the Tataukyamu 
being the most weird. 
At the close of the songs Alosaka brought down two vessels of water and poured a 
little on every person's head, which made the singers shiver with cold. The night 
ceremonials of the fourth day were similar in all the kivas, but the details of each 
have not been worked out carefully enough for publication. 
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