en passing his hand
backward to the left he sprinkled the same line up the left cheek. The
second and third rows had simply a line of the pollen run across the
masks, beginning at the north end. The theurgist repeated a prayer during
the sprinkling of the pollen, then handed the bag of pollen to the priest
of the sweat house, who repeated the sprinkling of the masks, when
everyone in the lodge, each having his individual bag of pollen, hastened
forward and sprinkled the masks, at the same time offering prayers. The
theurgist and priest of the sweat house again sprinkled pollen on the
masks as heretofore described.

Baskets and bowls in unlimited quantity, filled with food, were placed in
a circle around the fire which now burned brightly. The guests formed into
groups and drew the food toward them, but did not touch it for a time. The
invalid, song-priest, and his attendants, indulged in a smoke which was
social and not religious, the white man's tobacco being preferred on such
occasions. A girl and a boy, about 12 years of age, came into the lodge.
The boy was the son of the invalid, the girl his sister's child. The boy
knelt at the northeast end of the rug and the girl at the southeast end.
They were richly dressed in Navajo blankets, coral necklaces, etc., and
they remained perfectly quiet. The theurgist and his attendants talked
together in an undertone, and if the inmates of the lodge spoke at all
their voices were scarcely audible. After a time the choir opened, led by
the song-priest with his rattle. During the singing the rattle was passed
from one to the other. The invalid did not join in the song. The choir
continued an hour without cessation, and then rested 2 minutes, and again
began and continued for another hour.(4) At the conclusion of the singing
the song-priest handed to the girl a wand of turkey plumes taken from a
basket of feathers which had stood, since the placing of the masks, on the
west side of him. Another wand was passed to the boy; and the children
received some instructions from the song-priest, who spoke in an
undertone, after which, an attendant filled with water from a wicker water
jug a basket that had stood throughout the ceremony at the east of the
rug.

The song was now resumed, and dipping the wand he held in the basket of
water the boy sprinkled the masks, beginning at the north end and east
row. The girl repeated the same. The east row of masks was sprinkled
twice. When the childr