emoved. After the
masks had been placed on all the faces it was laid beside Hasjelti's. The
man personating Hasjelti sprinkled his mask and then Hostjoboard's with
pollen, and the man personating Hostjoboard sprinkled Hasjelti's mask and
then his own with pollen. The boy to the north end of the line was called
out and from the pollen bag took a pinch of pollen and sprinkled first the
mask of Hasjelti and then Hostioboard's. This was repeated by each boy,
girl, and woman in the line. In approaching the masks they always pass
back of the line around to the north side and then step in front of the
masks. The mask is sprinkled in this wise: A line of pollen is run from
the top of the head down to the mouth; passing around to the right the
line is drawn upward over the left cheek; the hand continues to move
outside of the mask to a point below the right cheek, then up the right
cheek. The younger children's hands were guided by the representatives of
the gods. It would be a great fatality to sprinkle a drop of meal over the
eye holes; the individual committing such an error would become blind at
least in one eye. Great care is also taken that the line is run up the
cheek, for if it was run down not only would vegetation be stunted, but
the lives of the people would become so, as all people and things should
aim upward not downward. The line running down through the center of the
face calls upon the gods above to send down rain upon the earth and health
to all people. Two or three children started through ignorance to run the
meal down one of the cheeks; they were instantly stopped by Hasjelti, but
not until the people looking on had expressed great horror. All in the
line having gone through this ceremony the crowd of spectators sprinkled
the masks in the same manner. I was requested to sprinkle them, and at the
same time was specially instructed to run the lines up the cheeks. This
closed the ceremony of initiation. The boys were then permitted to go
around at will and look at the masks and enter the lodge and view the sand
painting. Hasjelti and Hostjoboard returned to the lodge, carrying their
masks in their hands.

About an hour after the ceremony of the initiation of the children a large
buffalo robe was spread on the avenue with his head to the east, around
which a circle of some hundred feet in diameter was formed by horsemen and
pedestrians who gathered, eager to witness the outdoot ceremony. The
theurgist and invalid