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A'neglakya, name of a mythic boy; see legend, page 46. The 

 sister of the boy A'n.eglakya was named A'neglakyaUi'tsa. 

 This plant is sometimes called u'teawe I'o'hanna, 'white 

 flowers' {u'teawe, flowers; ko'hanna, white). 



A minute quantity of the powdered root is put into the eyes, ears, 

 and mouth of each of the A'shiwanni (rain priests) when the}" go at 

 night to ask the birds to smg for rain. "The birds are never afraid 

 to teU the A'shiwanni that thc_v will sing when they have the powder in 

 their ears, e3'es, and mouths." 



When a rain priest is to gatlior the plant for the purpose men- 

 tioned, he prepares four te'lihyina'ive (plume offerings),' one to 

 A'neglakya, one to A'noglakj^atsi'tsa, and two to his deceased pred- 

 ecessors. Each plume offering has an underwing plume of the 

 to'rui (turkey); one white fluffy plume of the Icldhld (eagle) from 

 the top of the tail; one tail plume from the e'ya (teal duck); one 

 tail or wing feather from the o'neUMa, long-tad chat (Icteria- 

 longicauda), bird of the north; one tail or wing feather from the 

 mai'ya, long-crested jay {Cyanocitta macrolopha), bird of the west; 

 one tail or wing feather from the mu'la, macaw (bird of the south); 

 one tail or wing feather from the Icd'tetasha, spurred towhee (Pipilo- 

 nugalonyx) , bird of the east; one tail or wuig feather of the kia'ioulokxa, 

 purpl(> marten {Progntsuhu) , bird of the zenith; and one tad or wing 

 featlier of the he'alonsetfo, paint<Hl buntmg {Passerina cins), bird of 

 the nadir. The ram priest deposits each offering separately in an 

 excavation which he makes with an ancient bean-planter, and, 

 addressing A'neglakya, A'neglakya tsi'tsa, and his ancestors, says: 

 "I place my te'likyina'we (prayer plumes), and I take your medicine 

 that I may talk to the birds of the six regions, that the rains may 

 come and fructify Earth Mother and make her beautiful." 



A small quantity of the powdered root of Datura meteloides is 

 admmistered by a rain priest to put one in condition to sleep and see 

 ghosts. This procedure is for raui, and "rams will surely come the 

 day following the taking of the medicine, uidess the man to whom it 

 is given has a bad heart." 



Frequently when a man has been robbed and wishes to discover the 

 thief, he summons to his aid a rain priest, who prepares plume offer- 

 ings, similar to those described, and plants them at sunrise of the 

 day he is to treat the man who has lost his property, with the following 

 prayer to A'neglakya, A'neglakyatsi'tsa, and his ancestors: "I give 

 you te'likyina'we [plume offerings] and collect your medicine which 

 I will give to n\y child at night tliat he may see the one who has 

 robbed him."' 



1 See SSd Ann. Sep., Bur. A mer. Elhn., p. 171. 



