'895-] 455 [Fewkes. 
The line of meal leading to the shrine of Talaturasi passed 
down the stairway or southwest trail and led to a nook in the 
angle between two immense boulders which were on the same 
terrace as the sheep corrals, about opposite the upper part of the 
trail on the southwestern point of the mesa. 
The rough wall forming the crypt and enclosing the figurine is 
of undressed stone laid without mortar. A few stones were 
removed and the two paho were deposited in her gu-dle as I have 
represented them in the figure of this personage in the account 
of Naacnaiya {op. cit., pi. 1, fig. 2). I was told that the Dawn 
woman, clothed in her white blanket, remained in this shrine 
throughout the year, except when she was borne to the pueblos 
by Kakapti and placed on the hatches of the kivas as elsewhere 
described. 
The approach to the shrine Ilopakpahokl^ is about 75 yards 
beyond the Ute and Apache pictographs on the cliffs above the 
wagon road to Hano. Near that place by the side of the road 
there is a large boulder and a rough path ascends the cliif 
meandering back toward Walla, as it rises to a point above the 
pictographs. When the youths arrived at its termination they 
halted and made a little mound of meal into which they inserted 
twigs with feathered strings attached. 
Disposal of the New Fire Embp:rs. 
Immediately after the six youths had dejjarted with the offer- 
ings, the members of all the four societies prepared to dispose 
of the embers of the sacred fire in their kivas and to perform 
accompanying purifications. The first to observe these rites were 
the iLicakiountu, each member of which provided himself with a 
fragment of melon rind of proper size, and scooped up embers 
and ashes from the fireplace, placing as nearly as possible equal 
portions in all the melon rinds. The greatest care was observed 
to remove every particle of fire and all the ashes. Each man 
then took a handful of sacred meal in his left hand, and led by 
Anawita, the procession climbed the kiva ladder and filed to the 
northwest side of the court through the alley to the cliff at the 
' Hopoko, N. E., pahoki, shrine {paho, ki, house ). 
