1891.] 217 [Gatschet. 



raingods, as the winds or the storm clouds chasiug each other in the 

 skies. The direction taken by the hawk and the antelope is the same 

 as that by which the calumet smoke is blown out by the participants in 

 the quarterly sun-worship festival. 



The wording of the two stories is incomplete in several respects. So 

 the transmutation of the racers into animals for the purpose of outdoing 

 each other is not expressly mentioned, although the story cannot be 

 understood without it. The other version also states that the boy-child 

 left by his uncle and mother upon the prairie, was carried to the antelopes 

 by a coyote, after which a mother antelope, who had lost, her fawn, 

 adopted the tiny stranger as her own. 



By an ingenious act of the mother antelope the boy was surrendered 

 again to his real human mother ; for when the circle of the hunters grew 

 smaller around the herd, the antelope took the boy to the northeast, 

 where his mother stood in a white robe. At last these two were the only 

 ones left within the circle, and when the antelope broke through the line 

 on the northeast, the boy followed her and fell at the feet of his own human 

 mother, who sprang forward and clasped him in her arms. 



To acquire a correct pronunciation of this and other Tanoan (or Tehuan) 

 dialects is not a very difficult task for Americans, after they have suc- 

 ceeded in articulating the j[, ^ and J, as sounds pronounced with the teeth 

 closed ; the i is uvular besides, a, 6, ii are softened vowels or Umlaute ; 

 a, i, u indicate a hollow, deep sound of a, i, u, and e is the e of butler, 

 sinker; '1 is an 1 pronounced by pressing the fore part of the tongue 

 against the palate ; ~ and " mark length and brevity of vowels. 



To give a full glossary and grammatic explanation of the texts is not 

 within the scope of this article. But some of the more necessary elucida- 

 tions are as follows : 



Substantives descriptive of persons, of animals and of inanimate objects 

 seen to move spontaneously, are made distinct in the singular number by 

 the suffix -ide, in the plural by -nin, " many"; while inanimates are in 

 the plural marked by -n, and in the singular show no suffix. In verbs, 

 the ending -ban or -wan points to past tense, -hinap, -hinab, -innap, to a 

 subjunctive or conditional mode, and a final -k to a participle. 



THE SUN WORSHIP OP ISLETA PUEBLO. 



There is so much similarity among the New Mexico Indians in appear- 

 ance, customs, manners and ceremonial, that we need not be surprised 

 at the equality of sun worship among all their pueblos, which is shared 

 even by the Quera Indians, who speak languages differing entirely from 

 those, of the Tanoan family. So a sketch of the Isleta sun worship will 

 do for all of them. 



The town of Isleta now holds about 1040 inhabitants and is divided in 

 two parts by a wide street, called the plac/i. The northern portion is 

 inhabited by the Isleta medicine-men or "fathers" (ka-a'-ide, plural 



