So he has recourse to an expedient, simple and primitive.
Two little sticks or twigs, placed crosswise and held to their place by a rock or stone, serve the same purpose in case of emergency.

Such accumulations of rocks, little stone-heaps, are plentiful around Indian villages; and they represent votive offerings, symbolizing as many prayers.

There were a number of them at the Rito around the big house, along the fields, and on the trails leading up to the mesa.

Okoya went to the nearest one and placed two twigs crosswise on it, poising them with a stone.

Then he scattered sacred meal, which he always carried with him in a small leather wallet, and thanked the Sanashtyaya, our mother, with an earnest ho-a-a, ho-a-a.
Then he turned homeward.