428 THE ZUNI INDIANS [eth. ann 23. 



Shi'wannakwe " 



The Shi'wannakwe and 'San'iakiakwe are the only fraternities which 

 do not observe the fast from animal food at the winter solstice festival, 

 these two fraternities having at the time of their origin received direct 

 instructions from the Divine Ones not to observe the fast. The Shi'- 

 wannakwe must not. however, touch jack rabbit as food at an}' time. 

 This fraternit}' has three orders — O'naya'nakia (Mystery medicine), 

 It'sepcho (Jugglery), and Ma'HvC (Fire). The novice usually does not 

 appear before the fraternity until the fourth night, when the fraternity 

 father escorts him from his home to the ceremonial chamber. 



The writer failed to get a sketch of the tablet altar, which is similar 

 to those of the other fraternities. Plate cii shows the dr}^ painting 

 which is made at the time of initiation. This painting is not directly 

 associated with the worship of beasts of prey, but with celestial 

 worship, c/, Outline of tablet altar; h, mi'wachi of the order of 

 O'naya'nakia; c\ line of meal; d, Yu'pia'hlan'na* (Galaxy), formed of 

 meal and outlined in charred corncob; e. sun symbol; /', moon symbol. 

 The sun and moon are formed of corn pollen, burnt corncob, crushed 

 turquoise, and other mineral colors. These two emblems are about 5 

 inches in diameter. The lines extending from the disks denote the 

 sun's ra3's. 



At an initiation into the Shi'wannakwe fraternity the meal from 

 the symbol of the Galaxy is rubbed on the novice, as the sands are 

 in initiatory ceremonies in orders associated with Mystery medicine.^ 

 The meal is afterward gathered in corn husks and carried with prayer 

 plumes to the shrine of the Shi'wannakwe on a knoll southeast of 

 Zuni, where there is a stone slab containing etchings of the sun and 

 moon. The novice, accompanied to this shrine by his fraternity father, 

 plants his prayer plumes, which are offerings to u'wannami A'shi- 

 wanni (rain priest rain-makers), u'wannami pe'kwin (sun priest rain- 

 makers), Yu'pia*hlan'na, and the Beast Gods, these latter being 

 supplicated to intercede with the others. The plumes are planted a 

 few feet southwest of the slab, which rests on four elevations several 

 inches high. 



When initiation into the Fire order occurs, the novice sits for a time 

 in the center of the floor, and he rises when the fraternity father 

 is ready to place coals in his mouth. The medicine, achillea mille- 

 folium (3'arrow), taken beforehand ''to prevent burning'' is put into 

 the novice's mouth directly from the mouth of the fraternity father. 



The Shi'wannakwe possess a rude carving in stone of a female, 



a Those who do not fast from animal food. 



J>The male gender is applied to the Galaxy. 



cTo be described in connection with other fraternities as.sociated with zoic worship. 



