large bunch of Spanish bayonets.  While the Indian from almost infancy looks upon any exhibition of feeling when undergoing physical suffering as most cowardly and unmanly, the severity of the pain inflicted by the yucca switches in this ceremony is at times such as to force tears from the eyes of the little ones, but a boy over the age of five or six rarely flinches under this ordeal.  After passing the line the godparent enters the Kiva of the North, where he is met by a priest of the great fire order, who asks, “Who is your K[=o]k-k[=o]?” When the godfather replies, he is directed to select his boy’s plume.  The plumes which ornament the heads of the figures have been previously wrapped in corn husks and carried to the priest by the respective godfathers.  The godfather attaches the feather, which is a soft, downy feather of the eagle, to the scalp-lock of the child.  The godparent is then given a drink of the holy water, which is dipped from the bowl by the medicine man with a shell attached to a long reed.  The child also drinks and repeats a prayer after his sponsor.  They then leave the kiva, and, taking a position on the north side of the plaza, the child kneels and clasps the bent knee of his godfather, who draws him still closer with the blanket around him.  Four new characters of the K[=o]k-k[=o] now appear, the Sai-[=a]-hli-a (see Plate XX).  Each one of these strikes the child four times across the back with his yucca blades, having first tested with his foot the thickness of the child’s clothing.  The child must not have anything over his back but the one blanket, which is a gift from the godfather.  This ceremonial over, each child accompanies his godparent to his home, where a choice meal is served.

The night ceremonial is conducted in two kivas, that of the South and that of the East.  The K[=o]k-k[=o] for this ceremony divide and enter the two kivas.

The godparents sit upon the stone ledge which passes around the room, whose walls are rectangular, and, spreading his knees, the boy sits on the ledge between them.  To the right of the guardian his wife sits, and to his left his sister.  In case the wife is not present, the older sister sits on the right and a younger sister on the left.  The father of the Sun (P[=a]-oo-t[=i]-wa) enters and sits upon the throne which has been arranged for him at the west end of the room; this has a sacred blanket attached to the wall and one to sit upon, the whole profusely ornamented with white scarfs, woven belts, and many necklaces of turquoise and other precious beads.  To his right and left sit the two young priests who prepared the throne; to the left of the priest, on the left of P[=a]-oo-t[=i]-wa, sit the high priest and priestess of the Earth.  The remainder of the ledge is filled with the boys and their friends.  Nai-[=u]-chi, the living representative of [=A]h-ai-[=u]-ta, the war god, sits to the left of the fire altar as you enter and feeds the sacred flames.  The Sae-lae-m[=o]-b[=i]-ya