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is when the sun has got a good start on his way back toward the north 
along the eastern horizon. 
The cacique does not summon the heads of societies to a meeting at 
hotcanitsa as in hanyiko; each society takes its own initiative in this 
matter. There is very little ceremony. Members of each society 
vomit each morning for 4 days. On the fourth day they make 
prayersticks. On the evening of the fourth day they meet in their 
house and sing. When they have finished they take their prayersticks 
out and bury them. 
KACAIDIMe: SUMMER RETREATS FOR RAIN 
Societies go into retreats for rain during the summer in the Keresan 
pueblos (White, 1942 a, pp. 207 ff.; White, 1935, pp. 88 ff.). A “Te- 
treat”? involves seclusion in the society’s ceremonial house, fasting, 
and the performance of a ceremony. At Sia, these retreats are called 
kac&ipime (kac&ipi, ‘summer’). Stevenson has detailed descriptions 
of these “rain ceremonials,’’ which she witnessed, for the Snake, 
Giant, Flint (Knife), and Kwiraina (Querranna) societies in “The 
Sia’”’; they are unique for the Keres. 
The Flint, Koshairi, Kwiraina, Giant, Fire, and Kapina societies 
each has aretreat during thesummer. They may all go in at one time; 
or they may go in two at a time; or they may go insingly. The Tia- 
munyi decides which procedure is to be followed. The retreats occur 
between about June 10 and the last of July. One informant said 
that the time was set by cacique who observed the rising of the sun 
for this purpose; another said that Tiamunyi did not watch the sun: 
“they go pretty much by the white man’s calendar now.” 
About June 1 the War chief orders a community hunt in order to 
provide Tiamunyi with an adequate supply of meat for kacaidime. 
They hunt for cottontails and jackrabbits and for wood rats (ck’awac, 
Neotoma). The animals are dried and then tied together to form 
strings; 4 or 5 jackrabbits, 8 cottontails, 25 to 30 rats will form one 
string. The meat is delivered to cacique at the hotcanitsa (the 
cacique’s official residence). . 
The cacique asks the War chief to call a meeting of all pueblo 
officers, the governor, fiscales, and everyone, to meet in the evening 
at the hotcanitsa to decide when to begin the ceremony of kacaidime. 
A date for a future meeting is set at this meeting. 
This second meeting is attended by all pueblo officers as before. 
But this time the War chief sends a gaotcanyi to the home of the head 
of each of the six societies mentioned above and requests them to 
attend the meeting at the hotcanitsa. Each nawai (head) is escorted 
to the hotcanitsa by a gaotcanyi. When a society head enters he 
shakes hands first with Tiamunyi, then the tcraikatsi, Masewi, Oyo- 
