hands, in the ends of which grains of corn of the respective colors
are placed and wrapped with shreds of the bayonet. Any man or youth
desiring to raise yellow corn appeals to the Sä-lä-mō-bī-ya of
the North, who strikes him a severe blow with his bunch of bayonets.
Similar appeals are made to those representing other colors. The
sand altar is made in the Kiva of the North. It is first laid in the
ordinary yellowish sand, in the center of which the bowl of medicine
water is placed. Over the yellow sand a ground of white sand
is sprinkled. All the Sä-lä-mō-bī-ya and their brothers are
represented on the altar (Plate XXII). The altar is circular in form
and some twelve feet in diameter. The Kō-lō-oo-wĭt-si encircles the
whole.

Throughout the day the Kōk-kō are running around the village
whipping such of the people as appeal to them for a rich harvest,
while the curious performances of the Kō-yē-mē-shi carry one back
to the primitive drama.

[Illustration XXII: ZUÑI SAND ALTAR IN KIVA OF THE NORTH.]

Toward evening the ceremony for initiating the children begins. The
priest of the Sun, entering the sacred plaza (or square), sprinkles a
broad line of sacred meal from the southeast entrance across the south
side, thence along the western side to the Kiva of the North, and up
the ladderway to the entrance (which is always in the roof), and
then passing over the housetops he goes to the Kiva of the Earth and
sprinkles the meal upon the Kō-lō-oo-wĭt-si. He then precedes the
Kōk-kō to the plaza and deposits a small quantity of yellow meal
on the white line of meal near the eastern entrance. By this spot the
Sä-lä-mō-bī-ya of the North stands, south of the line of meal. The