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On the eighth da}' there are still more extensive preparations of te'li- 

 kinawe. All are bus}' in chambers of the fraternities and elsewhere. 

 While this day is especially set apart for making- the offerings to be 

 deposited on the ninth day, several days must be consumed b}^ many 

 who have not only their own te'likinawe to make but those of their 

 fraternity children. No one who has not received voluntary initia- 

 tion into the Ko'tikili is privileged to fashion the sticks or attach the 

 plumes, although women sometimes color the sticks. There is, how- 

 ever, an exception to this rule. When a woman has severed her con- 

 nection with the U'huhukwe (Eagle down) fraternity," she must then 

 prepare the offerings for it, she having been instructed by her frater- 

 nity father. 



The onh' persons exempt from offering te'likinawe on the ninth daj' 

 are females who are not associated with a fraternity and young male 

 children who have not received voluntary initiation into the Ko'tikili. 

 Each meml)er of the Ko'tikili deposits one te'likinane to the sun, one 

 to the moon, four to the Kok'ko A'wan (Council of the Gods), and 

 others to the game animals, birds of the six regions, birds of summer, 

 birds of winter, and to Po'shuiyiinki for all domestic animals. 



The old proverb, "" When you are in Rome do as the Romans do," is 

 sometimes observed in Zuni. For example, a Hopi Indian, married 

 to a Zuni woman and therefore a resident of Zuni, is seen sitting in 

 the midst of a group of his people (visitors to the village) in the 

 southwest portion of the room of Jose Palle, a shi'wanni, and all are 

 preparing te'likinawe that are quite different from those offered b}^ 

 the Zuni. The son of the shi'wanni by a former wife, one by his 

 present wife, a stepson, and two adopted children, nephews of the 

 wife, one of whom wears female attire, sit on the ledge in the north- 

 east portion of the room, all busih^ engaged preparing their te'liki- 

 nawe. The shi'wanni himself sits some distance from the family in 

 the east end of the room. Medicine boxes and Apache baskets are 

 before and beside him. His wife busies herself making te'likinawe 

 of the U'huhukwe fraternit}', from which she has resigned. Two chil- 

 dren amuse themselves with plumes given them by their grandfather. 

 One young mother, tying a plume to her infant's hair and providing 

 him with a ceremonial rattle, teaches him to dance. Thus the children 

 begin at the tenderest age to prepare for their future duties, those 

 features which delight their infantile minds becoming the ritual asso- 

 ciated with their worship. 



The Hopi resident makes for each person present, including the 

 children and the writer, a la'showanne of two fluffy eagle plumes and 

 two pine needles, which he presents with prayers for rain to fructify 

 the earth, that the crops may be bountiful, and for the good health and 

 long life of all. The la'showanne is tied to a strand of hair at the left 



a See Esoteric fraternities. 



