The house truly presented a gay showing of _inao_. Those for the fireplace are called _chi e horo ka kep_. There were four of them in line at the east end of the fireplace; the top end is four-cleft and there are two tufts of shavings at different heights; in the upper tuft were three small bunches, neatly curled; in the lower tuft, were two bunches; in shaving these the movement is downward and toward the cutter; the bark is left on the lower part of the sticks; these _inao_ should be burned after the ceremony. The _chise koro inao_ were two in number, one to the north, the other to the south, of the fireplace; they are cut squarely across at the upper end and tapered gradually below; no bark is left upon them; they are for the household god and, after the ceremony should be placed with it in the northeast corner. _Inao kike_, loose shaving curls, were hung at the entrance and at the sides of the two windows; when evil people look in at the window, where these are located, the god strikes them in the face; only evil people _will_ look in at a window. Great _inao_, with beautifully curled masses of shavings, called _kike parase_ were fastened—one at the south window, one somewhat larger at the east window, another still larger on the roof beam above the south end of the fireplace; those at the windows are to keep away evil spirits and ghosts; that bound to the beam is dedicated to the god who holds up the house; the two on the roof, at the ends of the ridgepole were of the same kind and were to ward off harm from winds and evil birds. _Chise koro inao_ is a name used only while that kind of an _inao_ is at the fireplace; when it is elsewhere it is called _kike chinoe_; the shaving curls of which it is composed may be twisted together into cords giving it an entirely peculiar and different appearance. Most important of all, however, is the _inao netobe_; this is the one at the extreme northeast corner of the room, and, even for our inspection the people were unwilling to bring it out, though they showed it to me in its place, in full detail; the top end is cut obliquely at a single stroke, and the resulting slope is called “the face”; the bark is left on and in it three notches are cut, at each of three levels, around the stick, nine in all; cords of _kike inao_ are tied around this stick and rest upon these notches, as supports; these cords bind in place pendant _kike_; as new household festivals occur new _kike_ are added until a great bunch of them is formed; under this mass of pendant shavings the coal from the hearth is bound; a little arrow or spear is laid among the shavings and a miniature sword is bound to the upright; this _inao_ represents the very spirit of the house, and while it ought never to be moved during the lifetime of the house, it should be destroyed if the house is deserted. The _nusa_ to the east of the house consisted of twenty sticks of which twelve were long, eight short. The longer ones