First Song of the Exploding Stick 462 {239} Last Song of the Exploding Stick 462 {243} First Daylight Song 463 {247} Last Daylight Song 463 {250} Other songs and extracts 464 {254} Song of the Prophet to the San Juan River 464 {254} Song of the Building of the Dark Circle 464 {257} Prayer to Dsilyi‘ Neyáni 465 {261} Song of the Rising Sun Dance 465 {265} Instructions given to the akáninili 466 {269} Prayer of the Prophet to his Mask 466 {272} Last Words of the Prophet 467 {275} NOTE ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF NAVAJO WORDS. The spelling of Navajo words in this paper is in accordance with the alphabet of the Bureau of Ethnology: c = _ch_ in _chin_; ¢ = _th_ in _this_; ç = _th_ in _think_; j = _z_ in _azure_; q = German _ch_ in _machen_; ‘ shows that a vowel is aspirated; the vowels have the continental sounds; _ai_ is the only diphthong, and is like _i_ in _line_; _l_ is usually aspirated; the other letters have the ordinary English pronunciation. [See also Transcriber’s Supplement at the end of the text, between the Index and the Errata.] ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE X. Medicine lodge, viewed from the south 418 XI. Medicine lodge, viewed from the east 420 XII. Dance of nahikàï 432 XIII. Fire dance 442 XIV. The dark circle of branches at sunrise 444 XV. First dry painting 446 XVI. Second dry painting 448 XVII. Third dry painting 450 XVIII. Fourth dry painting 452 FIGURE 50. Qastcèëlçi, from a dry painting of the klèdji-qaçàl 397 51. The çobolçà, or plumed wands, as seen from the door of the medicine lodge 422 52. Akáninili ready for the journey 424 53. The great wood pile 429 54. Dancer holding up the great plumed arrow 434 55. Dancer “swallowing” the great plumed arrow 434 56. The whizzer, or groaning stick 436 57. Yucca baccata 440 58. Sacrificial sticks (keçàn) 452 59. The talking kethàwn (keçàn-yalçì‘) 452 * * * * * THE MOUNTAIN CHANT: A NAVAJO CEREMONY. By Dr. Washington Matthews, U.S.A.