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snake harmless. In the second place, so far as it is known, the Hopi have no antidote for poison. They neither rub their bodies nor take an antidote with them before going upon the hunt, while the drinking of the emetic and the violent vomiting immediately after the dance is a purification rite, pure and simple. Yet no Hopi priest has ever been known to suffer from the bite of a rattle-snake. There seems to be but one answer to the question, and that is, that tike Hopi snake priests understand the ways of the rattle-snake and are careful never to pick him up or to handle him when he has as sumed a striking attitude. When a snake falls from the mouth of a carrier and coils, the whip is waved over it, whereupon it is picked up It is also quite possible to believe that from the very moment the rattlesnake is ruthlessly seized in the field until he is released at the conclusion of the ceremony, he is handled with recklessness that his constant desire is not to strike but to flee. Again, it must be admit ted that as soon as the snakes enter the kiva they are kept in tightly closed jars, hence by the end of the ceremony are probably in a dazed condition. But the rattlesnake, during the greater part of his captivity, is treated with the utmost unconcern. After this comes that other question what does this all mean? The ceremony of the Snake and Antelope priests, presumably like all other ceremonies, is a dramatization of a ritual which has its origin in a myth, each recounting how, on some occasion in the far distant past, various events happened in a certain way and certain definite and tangible results followed. As enacted today, theAntelope, Snake ceremony is an elaborate prayer for rain, the snakes carry down to the underground world, where they are in direct connection with the j?reat plumed water serpent, prayers to the gods of the rain clouds that they will send such copious rains as will save the Hopi from hanger and possibly from starvation. The trip out of Hopi land was made from Oraibi to Keams Canon, via the Second Mesa, where we stopped for luncheon with Miss McLean, the missionary there, who was just completing a fine large, stone chapel, all the work on it being done by Hopi men under her direction. Miss McLean, a devout Christian worker, is accomplish-