ollowed by
Hostjoghon, left the dancing ground. They did not go to the green,
however, but moved off a short distance to rest for a moment and
returned. Upon each return the invalid passed down the line on the north
side sprinkling each dancer with meal, Hasjelti and Hostjoghon
performing with the fawn skin and wands. This dance of four figures was
repeated twelve times, each time the dancers resting but a moment. After
the twelve dances the dancers passed to the green room, where they were
relieved by a second set of men. The second series of dances were
exactly like the first. There were twenty-one dances, four figures in
each dance, and each time the dancers appeared they were sprinkled with
meal by the invalid, while Hasjelti and Hostjoghon performed their
antics with fawn skin and wands. The third series embraced all the
dances exactly like the above. The fourth series embraced nineteen
dances. The only variation in this was that the leaders were often more
clownish in their performances, and upon several occasions only four men
representing women appeared. In this case two men danced together. Some
of the dancers dropped out from weariness, which caused diminution in
some of the sets. The last dance closed at the first light of day. The
song-priest had preceded the last dancers to the green room and awaited
their arrival to obtain the masks, which were his special property.

MYTHS OF THE NAVAJO.

CREATION OF THE SUN.

The first three worlds were neither good nor healthful. They moved all
the time and made the people dizzy. Upon ascending into this world the
Navajo found only darkness and they said "We must have light."

In the Ute Mountain lived two women, Ahsonnutli, the turquoise
hermaphrodite, and Yolaikaiason, the white-shell woman. These two women
were sent for by the Navajo, who told them they wished light. The Navajo
had already partially separated light into its several colors. Next to
the floor was white indicating dawn, upon the white blue was spread for
morning, and on the blue yellow for sunset, and next was black
representing night. They had prayed long and continuously over these,
but their prayers had availed nothing. The two women on arriving told
the people to have patience and their prayers would eventually be
answered.

Night had a familiar, who was always at his ear. This person said, "Send
for the youth at the great falls." Night sent as his messenger a
shooting star. The youth s