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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Identifier: annualreportofbu47smithso (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology; Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
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CALENDAR 309 bits from the piles of food, one passing to the right, one to the left (see p. 299), and to take to the ash pile. The moiety chiefs also send assistants to collect from the piles of food, the Black Eyes assistant going to the right, the shure' to the left. These several messengers return and report. The food that is left is now taken to the houses of the medicine societies where the town chief in one house, his assist- ant in the other, presents the food. The Fathers exorcise the food with their feathers and remove the food Loto an adjacent room. . . . The Fathers are nude but for a clout of buckskin to which a fringe of tin pendants is attached. There is a hne of white paint across the chest and lightning zigzags in white on arms and legs, two on the outside of each arm and leg, two on the inside. The Town Fathers have the body spotted with yellow paint, the Laguna Fathers spot with cotton. For both groups there is a line of pakalama pigment, presumably micaceous hematite, across the bridge of the nose and imder the eyes. In the hair is worn a prayer feather (lawashie), a downy eagle feather painted with red pigment (napiewi), which is also smeared on the hair-part- ing.^ A necklace of bear claws is worn, the claws fastened to a strip of bear fur, and the precious p^shko or crystal for second sight is pendent from the neck. There is a wristlet (kafi) of cow- hide set with arrow points or olivella shells. The two exorcising eagle feath- ers are carried in the left hand, a bear paw is in the right. (Fig. 1.5.) To return to the ceremony, after "cleaningup" thefood,theFatherstake position in front of their altar (figs. 16, 17); they dance; they circulate among the people, saying truhi'! truhi'! The chief assistant passes from the altar to the door, making brushing motions with his feathers. He is cleaning the road; and at the door he makes the cutting or slicing and discarding motions with the feathers. Two assistants go around the walls, one going in one direction, one in the other, exorcising -with their feathers. One goes to the fireplace in the ceremonial room and one to the fireplace in the next room, where
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Figure 15.—Town Fatber " Compare Laguna, Parsons 8: 119. Also a Tewa practice.

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