Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians | Page 8

the right blue leg, the left black leg and left
blue leg. The right black arm, then the right blue arm, the left black arm
and the left blue arm, then the black head and the blue head. (See PI.
CXV.)
These tubes were filled with feathers, balls, and tobacco, and tipped
with the corn pollen and lighted with the crystal, the black tubes being
offerings to the gods, the blue to the goddesses. After they were
completed they were placed in position by a second attendant; and
while the tubes were being filled the song-priest and choir sang "See,

fathers! We fill these with tobacco; it is good; smoke it!" A message
was received from the fathers that they would smoke, and, puffing the
smoke from their mouths, they would invoke the watering of the earth.
They again sang "All you people who live in the rocks, all you who are
born among the clouds, we wish you to help us; we give you these
offerings that you may have food and a smoke! All women, you who
live in the rocks, you who are born among the fog, I pray you come and
help us; I want you to come and work over the sick; I offer to you food
of humming-birds' plumes, and tobacco to smoke!" Two bunches of
feathers which had been placed to the east side of the rug pointing east
were deposited in two corn husks, each husk containing bits of
turquoise, black archaic beads, and abalone shell; corn pollen was
sprinkled on these. The song-priest then placed the dual body in the
husks thus: First, the black body was laid upon the husks to the north,
and upon this a pinch of pollen was sprinkled; the blue body was
placed in the other husks and pollen sprinkled upon it; then the two
right legs (black and blue) were put into the corn husks with the black
body; the two left legs were added to the same; the right and left arms
and the two heads were placed in the husk with the blue body and corn
pollen sprinkled upon them. The husks were closed and held by the
song-priest to the soles of the feet, palms, knees, breast, shoulders, back,
and top of head of the invalid, who repeated a long prayer after the
theurgist, and the parcels were given to an attendant, who carried them
some distance from the lodge to the north and placed them in a
secluded shady spot upon the ground. Two bits of tobacco were laid
upon the ground and upon these the body was placed, the figure in a
recumbent position with the arms over the head. The invalid for whom
this ceremony was held spared no expense in having the theurgist make
the most elaborate explanation to his near relatives of the secrets of the
medicine tubes.
[Illustration]
CEREMONIAL MASKS.

THIRD CEREMONY.

The theurgist occupied his usual seat, surrounded by his corps of
attendants. The man personating Naiyenesgony had his body and limbs
painted black. The legs below the knee, the scapula, the breasts, and the
arm above the elbow were painted white. His loins were covered with a
fine red silk scarf, held by a silver belt; his blue knit stockings were
tied with red garters below each knee, and quantities of coral, turquois,
and white shell beads ornamented the neck. The man representing
Tobaidischinni had his body colored reddish brown, with this figure
[Illustration: scalp knot symbol] (the scalp knot) in white on the outside
of each leg below the knee, on each arm below the shoulder, each
scapula, and on each breast. This design represents the knot of hair cut
from the heads of enemies, and the style is still in use by the Navajo.
The man wore a red woolen scarf around the loins, caught on by a
silver belt, and his neck was profusely ornamented with coral, turquois,
and white beads.(1) Naiyenesgony and Tobaidischinni left the lodge,
carrying with them their masks. (See Pl. cxv, 1, 2, 3.) Bunches of pine
boughs, which during the forenoon had been made into wreaths by
joining pieces together with yucca in this fashion were [Illustration:
scalp knot symbol] laid across each end of the rug.
After the two men personating the gods left the lodge the invalid
entered and took his seat on the rug with his back to the theurgist. Two
attendants dressed him with the wreaths, beginning with the right ankle;
a piece was then tied around the calf, thigh, waist, around the chest,
right wrist, elbow, upper arm, throat, forehead, then around the upper
left arm, elbow, wrist, thigh, left knee, calf, and ankle. Thus the man
was literally obscured with a mass of pine. He sat in an upright position
with