one taking off his mask, places it over the head of the boy,
handing him his Spanish bayonets. The boy strikes the K[=o]k-k[=o]
once across each arm and once across each ankle. The K[=o]k-k[=o] does
not speak, but the boy is instructed by his guardian, who talks to him
in a whisper, telling him not to be afraid, but to strike hard. The
eyes of the boys open wide as the K[=o]k-k[=o] raise their masks and
for the first time familiar faces are recognized. The K[=o]k-k[=o]
leave the kiva after revealing their identity to the children, and
running, around the village use their switches indiscriminately, with
a few exceptional cases. I saw a woman whipped, she taking the babe
from her back and holding it in her arms. This woman requested the
whipping that she might be rid of the bad dreams that nightly troubled
her. After the Sai-[=a]-hli-[=a] leave the kiva the children are
called by the priest of the K[=o]k-k[=o] and told to sit in front of
him and the other priests, including the High Priest of Zuni. This
august body sits in the kiva throughout the ceremony. The Priest of
the K[=o]k-k[=o] then delivers a lecture to the boys, instructing them
in some of the secrets of the order, when they are told if they betray
the secrets confided to them they will be punished by death; their
heads will be cut off with a stone knife; for so the K[=o]k-k[=o] has
ordered. They are told how the K[=o]k-k[=o] appeared upon the earth
and instructed the people to represent them. The priest closes by
telling the children that in the old some boys betrayed the secret
and told that these were not the real gods, but men personating the
K[=o]k-k[=o], and when this reached the gods the Sai-[=a]-hli-[=a]
appeared upon the earth and inquired for the boys. The people then
lived upon the mesa t[=o]-w[=a]-yael-laen-ne. The mothers declared they
knew not where they had fled. The K[=o]k-k[=o] stamped his feet upon
the rocky ground and the rocks parted, and away down in the depths of
the mountain he found the naughty boys. He ordered them to come to
him and he cut off their heads with his stone knife. This story is
sufficient to impress the children that there is no escape for them if
they betray the confidence reposed in them, for the K[=o]k-k[=o] can
compel the rocks to part and reveal the secrets.

A repast is now served to the priests and the boys and others in
the kiva. The food is brought by the wives and sisters of the four
Sai-[=a] hli-[=a] to the hat