. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . s were lifted from the emptied without being hoisted into the same bowl. The fifth stanzaclosed as the last gourd of water was poured into the bowl. In fillingthe medicine bowl the gourd was passed between two y^-ya. Thewoman returned the water vase to the corner of the room, and theyijuisiwittiinrii lifted the bowl and drank from it, afterwards admin-istering a draught of the water from an abalone shell to each member,excepting the honaaite, who, after the yilnisiwittanni had resumed hisseat
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . s were lifted from the emptied without being hoisted into the same bowl. The fifth stanzaclosed as the last gourd of water was poured into the bowl. In fillingthe medicine bowl the gourd was passed between two y^-ya. Thewoman returned the water vase to the corner of the room, and theyijuisiwittiinrii lifted the bowl and drank from it, afterwards admin-istering a draught of the water from an abalone shell to each member,excepting the honaaite, who, after the yilnisiwittanni had resumed hisseat in the line, passed to the fi-ont of the altar and drank directly fromthe bowl and returned it to its pla(;e. In the administering of the water the women were helped first, afeature never before observed by the writer in aboriginal life. With the beginning of the sixth stanza the honaaite arose, andleaning forward waved his plumes over the medicine bowl with a weirdcall, each member repeating the call, the women exhibiting more enthu- Bureau of EThnolo_gy Eleventh Annual Report Plate XIV. ALTAR AND SAND PAINTINGOF SNAKE SOCIETY. STEVENSON.) RAIN CEREMONIAL. 81 siiisin than tlic men in tliis particular feature of the ceremony. Thecry, wliich was rei)eated four times, was an invocation to the cloudrulers of the cardinal points to water the earth, and, with each cry,meal was sprinkled into the medicine bowl, each member being ])ro-vided with a small buckskin bag of meal or corn ])ollen, which liad beenpreviously taken from a bear-leg skin, and laid beside the members of the Snake Division sprinkled corn pollen instead ofmeal, the pollen being especially acceptable to tln^ Snake honaaite, towhom many of their prayers are addressed. The preparation of the mediciiu> water began with the opening ofthe seventh stanza. The yanisiwittiiiini <lanced before the altar, keep-ing south of the line of meal, and holding six pebble fetiches in eitherhand, whi<!h he had taken f
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