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jugglery arc practiced. Meetings may be held at other times at the 

 discretion of the director for initiation, but this is done only in extreme 

 cases. Though concurrent meetings of ela})orate character occur only 

 at the winter and summer solstices, it may happen that two or more 

 frateinities convene at the same time, the date for the meetings lieing 

 fixed by the director, who has direct control over the fraternity, the 

 exception being the Shu'maakwe; the director of this fraternity is 

 under the jurisdiction of the pe'kwin (sun priest) and it may convene 

 only at his command, and the sun priest is usually punctual in his 

 notices to the director that the fraternity meet with the others." 



The 'Ko'shi'kwe hold l>ut three meetings annually, and the novices 

 must wait for a regular meeting to join the fraternity. I'he A'pi"lashi- 

 wanni have the scalp ceremonial for initiation once in three or four 

 years, at the will of the elder brother Row priest. It is depended on 

 to bring rains in case of severe drought. This fraternity also has an 

 annual festival of thanksgiving, known as the "Harvest dance." The 

 'Hle'wekwe hold but two regular meetings annually, in January and 

 Februaiy, and a name presented for membership must be held over 

 for a 3'ear before the person can be received into the fraternity. The 

 Wood order (Sword swallowers) of the Great Fire hold synchronous 

 meetings with the 'Hle'wekwe in January and February, each fra- 

 ternity having its warrior or w^arriors from the A'pi"lashiwanni. 

 Except the *Hle'wekwe and Shu'maakwe, each fraternit}^ is notified of 

 a meeting- to be held b}' one of its wari-iors, who goes from house to 

 house saying to the members: "Our father (referring to the director) 

 wishes the fraternity to meet." The party addressed replies: "It is 

 well." The members of the 'Hle'wekwe are notified through the 

 Kia'kwemosi, rain priest of the North, and, as has been stated, the 

 Shu'maakwe are notified })y the sun priest. 



The members of all the fraternities gather semimonthl}' in the cere- 

 monial chamber to prepare prayer plumes, which the3' offer to their 

 gods. The tablet altars are often placed for these occasions. The 

 men prepare offerings for their fraternity children of the opposite sex 

 and for boys not old enough to have received voluntary initiation into 

 the Ko'tikili. 



When a woman loses a fraternity father she must choose another 

 to fill his place, because women can not prepare prayer plumes unless 

 they are members of the Ko'tikili, A male member of her fraternity 

 father's clan presents a quantity of meal wrapped in corn husk; laying 

 this in the palm of a man's hand, he prays and announces to him that 

 he has been chosen to fill the place of the deceased fraternity father. 

 The onl^' case, so far as the writer has been able to learn, in which 



"The pc'kwln having been a little tardy in 1892, the director of the fraternity complained to the 

 writer that he had not yet been notified to hold the ceremonial which should occur in February. On 

 the loUowing day his mind was set at rest by the notification from the sun priest. 



