. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . while officiating. The yaui*siwittanni then left thechamber, carrying the yaya in his left hand and bowl of medicinewater with both hands. When outside the house he sprinkled the sixcardinal points, the water being taken into the mouth and thrown outbetween the teeth. The honaaite lifting the basket of plume offerings stooped north ofthe meal line and the tiamoni and the younger member of the snakedivision stooped south of the line of meal. The necklaces of bearsclaws had been removed and all but the h
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . while officiating. The yaui*siwittanni then left thechamber, carrying the yaya in his left hand and bowl of medicinewater with both hands. When outside the house he sprinkled the sixcardinal points, the water being taken into the mouth and thrown outbetween the teeth. The honaaite lifting the basket of plume offerings stooped north ofthe meal line and the tiamoni and the younger member of the snakedivision stooped south of the line of meal. The necklaces of bearsclaws had been removed and all but the honaaites laid on a pile ofbear-leg skins, he depositing his on the snake fetich at the nortli sideof the altar. The two young men put on their moccasins and wrappedaround them their blankets which had served as seats during the cere-monial before advancing to meet the honaaite, who, while tlie threeheld the basket repeated a long litany, responded to by the two youngmen. The women laughed and talked, paying little attention to this Bureau of EThnolo_gy. Eleventh Annual Report. Plate XVI. Drawn by Mary M Mirchell CEREMONIAL VASE. RAIN CEREMONIAL. 85 prayer. At the conclnsion the hoiiaaite gave a bundle of hiiclianionito the tiiimoui and a similar one to his companion; he then gave aehister of i)lunie ottciings to the tiamoni and the remainder of thefeathers to the companion. The offerings were received in the blanketthrown over the left arm; and each of the young men taking a ijiuchof shell mixture left the chamber to deposit them at the shrines of theKopTshtaia with prayers to the Snake hoaaaites: I send you hiicha-moni and pay you herrotume, Tawaka, maickiiriwapai, I-sa-ti-en(tnrkis and shell offerings) tTper-we (the different foods) that you maybe pleased and have all things to eat and wear. I pay you these thatyon will beseech the cloud-rulers to send their people to water theearth that she may be fruitful and give to all people abundance of allfood. As the beare
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