There are very few women belonging to the order of the Kōk-kō. I think there are now only five in Zuñi. When a woman of the order becomes advanced in age she endeavors to find some maiden who will take upon herself the vows at her death. Selecting some young woman, she appeals to her to be received into the order of the Kōk-kō. The maiden replies, "I know nothing concerning the mysteries of the order. You must talk to my father." After the father is spoken to, he in turn spends the night in explaining the duties of the position to his daughter and that the gods would be displeased if she should marry after joining the Kōk-kō. Assuming the Kōk-kō vows is entirely optional with the girl. It is never her duty, but a special privilege which is rarely accepted. If she accepts she passes through both ceremonials described. She chooses her godfather, who gives her for the first ceremony a woman's blanket and for the second a woman's dress, a white blanket, a quantity of blue yarn, a woman's belt, a buckskin, a sacred blanket, and the mask she is to wear. But even here in Zuñi, where the people are so controlled by the priests and have such a superstitious dread of disobeying the commands of the Kōk-kō, women have been guilty of desecrating their sacred office and marrying. At present there is a woman of the order of the Kōk-kō married to a Navajo. She is of course forever afterwards debarred from joining in the ceremonials, but she is permitted to live among her people with no other punishment than their indignation. INDEX. Gilbert, G.K., visit of, to Zuñi 540 Käk-lō of Zuñi mythology 544, 547 Kiva, the Zuñi religious house 544, 547, 549, 552 Kōk-kō, the Zuñi order of the 540-548 admission of women into the 540-555 involuntary initiation into the 547-553 voluntary initiation into the 553-555 Moseley, H.N., visit of, to Zuñi 540 Mythology, brief account of Zuñi 539-545 Pueblo of Zuñi, location of 539 Religious life of the Zuñi child, by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson l-liii, 533-555 Stevenson, Mrs. Tilly E., on the religious life of the Zuñi child l-liii, 533-555 Turner, H.L., visit of, to Zuñi 542 Tylor, E.B., visit of, to Zuñi 540 Yucca blades in Zuñi ceremonial 550, 551, 553, 555 Zuñi, religious life of children among the, by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson l-liii, 533-555 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child by (Mrs.) Tilly E. (Matilda Coxe Evans) Stevenson