e sprinkled Naiyenesgony with corn
pollen, passing it up the right arm over the head and down the left arm to
the hand. He placed the black tube in the palm, of the left hand of the
god, the priest chanting all the while a prayer. The red tube was given
with the same ceremony to Tobaidischinni, and the blue tube with the same
ceremony to Ahsonnutli. The quiver was removed from Ahsonnutli before she
knelt. The song-priest, kneeling in front of Naiyenesgony, repeated a long
litany with responses by the invalid, when the gods left the lodge led by
Naiyenesgony who deposited his tube and stick in a pinon tree,
Tobaidischinni depositing his in a cedar tree, and Ahsonnutli hers in the
heart of a shrub.

SECOND CEREMONY.

The scene was a brilliant one. Long before the time for the dance a line
of four immense fires burned on each side of the avenue where the dance
was to take place, and Navajo men and women clad in their bright colored
blankets and all their rare beads and silver encircled each fire. Logs
were piled 5 or 6 feet high. In addition to these eight fires there were
many others near and far, around which groups of gamblers gathered, all
gay and happy. Until this night no women but those who carried food to the
lodge had been present at any of the ceremonies except at the initiation
of the children. To say that there were 1,200 Navajo would be a moderate
calculation. This indeed was a picture never to be forgotten. Many had
been the objections to our sketching and writing, but throughout the nine
days the song-priest stood steadfastly by us. One chief in particular
denounced the theurgist for allowing the medicine to be put on paper and
carried to Washington. But his words availed nothing. We were treated with
every consideration. We were allowed to handle the masks and examine them
closely, and at times the artists working at the sand painting really
inconvenienced themselves and allowed us to crowd them that we might
observe closely the many minute details which otherwise could not have
been perceived, as many of their color lines in the skirt and sash
decorations were like threads. The accompanying sketches show every
detail.

The green or dressing room was a circular inclosure of pine boughs at the
end of the avenue. It was about 10 feet high by 20 feet in diameter made
of pinon branches with their butts planted in the ground, their tops
forming a brush or hedge. Within this inclosure the masks were arr