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following- da}'. Each lii'wi'sine has a dance of thanksgiving and also 

 for rain at the gathering of the crops, the dancers departing over the 

 western road. 



All male children must be received into the Ko'tikili, in order to 

 enter the sacred dance house of Ko'thluwala'wa after death, and at 

 the time of involuntary^ initiation the child becomes allied to one of 

 the ki'wi'^siwe. 



Women ma}" join a ki'wi'sine under certain conditions, but their 

 initiation into the Ko'tikili is rare. Occasionally when a woman is ill 

 and the treatment of one or more theurgists fails, her family may 

 think she has been frightened by one of the personators of the gods, 

 and they try to decide who caused the trouble. When the person has 

 finally been decided upon he is requested to appear before the girl. 

 He visits the house dressed in the full regalia of the god he person- 

 ated at the time he was supposed to have frightened the girl, and 

 proceeds to instruct her in the importance of the religious duties 

 which must be performed by her should she become a member of the 

 Ko'tikili. At the next involuntary initiation ceremonies of the 

 Ko'tikili the girl passes through the rites with the infant boys. She 

 walks back of the one who is supposed to have frightened her, he 

 becoming her ceremonial father, while the young boys are carried on 

 the backs of their ceremonial fathers. The voluntary initiation of 

 the girl is no less severe than that of the boys. 



In 1902 there were four female members of the Ko'tikili. Two 

 of these were in Mu'he'wa ki'wi^sine, both young married women. 

 One has three children, the other none. Chu'pawa has one girl who 

 joined the Ko'tikili at the time of the last involuntary initiation pre- 

 vious to the writer's visit to Zuni in 1902; she is not married. The 

 O'he'wa has one female member; she is the eldest of the female mem- 

 bers, is married, but is childless. These women take part in the 

 masked dances, personating the goddesses. 



The ki'wi'sine to which the child shall belong is decided upon at his 

 birth. He must join the ki'wi'sine of the husband of the doctoress 

 who receives him at his nativity. If several female physicians be 

 present, which is usually the case, each is desirous to secure the child 

 as it comes into the world. The husband of the fortunate physician 

 serves as godfather in both the involuntary and voluntary initiation. 

 If the doctoress has no husband, her eldest son takes his place; if there 

 is no son, her eldest brother acts. 



The initiatory ceremonies are supposed to be performed by direct 

 command of Pau'tiwa (director-general of Ko'thluwala'wa), who sent 

 'Kiiiklo" from Ko'thluwala'wa to I'tiwauna to notify the A'shiwi that 

 the gods would come in eight days to give to the children the sacred 



n'Kiaklo is an ancestral god and deputy to Pau'tiwa. 

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