priests who sing to the sound of the flutes.

[Illustration: Figure 5.--Flute Ceremony at Michongnovi.

--Courtesy Arizona State Museum.]

"The children pick the offerings from the ground with sticks held in
their hands, and the same performance is repeated till they stand again
in the plaza on the mesa before the cottonwood bower, where they sing
melodious songs then disperse."

The foregoing description of Hough's is an account of the Walpi
ceremony, where we find only one Flute fraternity. Each of the other
villages has two fraternities, the Blue Flute and the Drab Flute. The
Flute Ceremony at Mishongnovi is perhaps the most impressive example of
this pageant as given by the double fraternity. Dr. Byron Cummings
reports this Mishongnovi ceremony as having several interesting
variations from the Walpi report given above. (See Figure 5.)

[Illustration: Figure 6.--Flute Boy before Costuming.

--Courtesy Arizona State Museum.]

On the ninth day women were observed sweeping the trail to the spring
with meticulous care, in preparation for the double procession which
came down at about 1:30 in the afternoon.

All the costuming was done at the spring--body painting, putting on of
ceremonial garments and arranging of hair.