sTicvENsoN] THANKSGIVING FOR CROPS 211 



sympathy, she gratefully raised her eyes, filled with unshed tears, and said: " I am 

 not guilty, but they will not believe me." This girl was severely whipped on her 

 return from the ki^wi'sine, a punishment inflicted only for a grave offense. 



Ceremonies of the Second Day 



The first body of A'shiwanni meet again on the morning following 

 the firyt evening's festivities, in the Shi'\vano""kia's house, and gathering 

 around a small bowl of native tobacco they pray and smoke. Two reeds 

 are tilled with the tobacco and placed by the bowl, with a bunch of corn 

 husks to be used for cigarettes. The Kia'kwemosi, holding two corn- 

 husk cigarettes, clasps the hands of the scalp custodian, praying that 

 he may clasp the hands of the A'shiwanni of all the world, from where 

 the Sun Father comes up to where he goes down; praying that the 

 Sun Father shall give to his people and to people of all the world, from 

 where he comes up to where he goes down, all things good — food, 

 raiment, and prosperity; that the priests of old and his other selves 

 (his deceased predecessors) shall send the rain to water the earth that 

 the crops may be bountiful; and that his people ma,j have power to 

 destroy the enemy. At the close of this prayer the hands of the 

 Kia'kwemosi and scalp custodian are reversed, and the latter repeats a 

 prayer, after which the two reed cigarettes are lighted and passed 

 around, each shi'wanni taking a whiff. With a husk cigarette in his 

 hand, the scalp custodian now departs for the house of the A'kwamosi 

 (maker of medicine water) of the Ant fraternit3^ After the smoke, 

 the A'shiwanni with bowed heads whisper most solemnl}^ a prayer, 

 after which a meal is served by the mother of the Shi'wano""kTa; each 

 one gathers bits of the food on a piece of bread, which is afterward 

 thrown into the fire, with a prayer to the ancestors and a call to them 

 to eat. The scalp custodian stands with the A'kwamosi of the Ant 

 fraternity, their hands clasped, he retaining the cigarette, and they 

 offer a prayer. Their hands are afterward reversed, and the A'kwa- 

 mosi repeats a prayer. Both bow and smile to the white a isitors who 

 enter, but do not speak until after the prayers, when the A'kwamosi 

 clasps DrTylor's" right hand with his left. Passing the hands in a 

 circle over the Doctor's head and bringing them to his lips, the A'kwa- 

 mosi draws a breath and passes the hands around his own head and 

 then to the lips of Dr Tylor, to draw a breath, that all that is good 

 may be drawn from the one to the other. The scalp custodian per- 

 forms the same acts with him, and finall}' the ceremony is repeated b}' 

 both the A'kwamosi and the scalp custodian over the writer. 



The A'kwamosi of the Ant fraternity, who is a ver}' old man of the 

 Sun clan, now hastens to a large chamber opening upon the large 

 plaza, where the A'pi'Miishiwanni are assembled, to officiate in the 



aDr E. B. Tylor, the distinguished English anthropologist, was present at these ceremonies, and 

 duiing his short stay he won the confidence and affection of all the priests and theurgists of the tribe. 

 The writer is much indebted to him for his valuable suggestions in regard to her investigations. 



