[102.] The chanter gave them his messages, telling them where to go, what places they were to visit, what other chanters they were to see, what dancers they were to invite, and what gifts they were authorized to offer to the visiting performers for their trouble. Having given these special instructions, he closed with the general instructions, which are always given to the akáninili, as follows:
These [pointing to the eagle feathers on the head] will make for you a means of rising as you progress.
These [pointing to the wing symbols on the arm] will bear you onward.
This [pointing to the collar of beaver skin] will be a means of recognition for you. For this reason it hangs around your neck.
Sprinkle meal across a little valley, across a big arroyo.
Across the roots of a tree sprinkle meal and then you may step over.
Sprinkle meal across a flat rock.
Then the plumed wand. For this purpose you carry it, that they will recognize you as coming from a holy place.
[103.] The akáninili on his journey scatters meal before him as directed in these charges. He also scatters it on the medicine men whom he visits, and for this reason he is called akáninili, which signifies meal sprinkler.
[104.] When the last word of the instructions was uttered, the couriers departed, one to the north and one to the south. It was not later than 7 o’clock when they left. As soon as they were gone, the work of painting the picture appropriate to the day was begun. It was much more elaborate than the painting of the previous day. Although a dozen men worked on it, it was not finished until two o’clock. About the time