also are carried to the four cardinal
points--white, east; blue, south; yellow, west; black, north. After all the
_kedan_ are taken out, Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti again enters with the _Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti
balil_, using it in directional order and giving medicine as on the night
before.

[Illustration: _Pikehodiklad_ - Navaho]

_Pikehodiklad_ - Navaho

_From Copyright Photograph 1907 by E.S. Curtis_

The first of the four dry-paintings used in conducting the Kleje Hatal, or
Night Chant, of the Navaho, being made on the fifth night. The purpose of
this night's acts is to frighten the patient; hence the name of the
painting, which signifies "Frighten Him On It."

The encircling figure represents the rainbow, _aklolh_; the first on the
left Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti, Talking God; the central, Haschebaad,
goddess--symbolically the patient--and the right-hand figure a male deity,
Haschebaku{~COMBINING BREVE~}n.

The patient sits on the central figure at its waist line during the
night's performance. When the ceremony in connection with this painting is
concluded the colored sands are carefully collected, carried out toward
the north, and deposited under a tree.

_Third Day_: It is understood that the patient has been sweated in the
morning, as on the second day. On this night he is dressed in spruce
boughs by the assisting medicine-man, bound around the wrists, arms,
ankles, legs, and body, and fastened on the head in the form of a turban.
After several songs, Naye{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani and Tobadzischi{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni cut the boughs from
the body, using a stone arrow-point as a knife. Then the boughs are cut
into fragments over the patient's head, after which the singer takes a
feather wand, points it toward the four cardinal points above the fire,
and brushes the patient, chanting meanwhile. At the end of the brushing he
points the wand out of the smoke-hole, at the same time blowing the dust
from it out into the open air.

_Fourth Day_: The ceremonies this day do not begin until later than usual,
probably nine o'clock. Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti and Haschebaad dress and go out. The
patient disrobes and takes his place. The assisting medicine-man digs a
small hole just between the patient's feet, and encircles it with a line
of _taditin_, or pollen, leaving