454 THE ZUNI INDIANS ' [eth. ann. 23 



two women, all of 'Ko"loktakwe clan, later in the day go to the house 

 of the *hle'et'tone, where each man makes eight prayer plumes to 

 the u'wannami (rain-makers) and each woman makes a ha'kwani. A 

 member of the fraternity, who must be of the Dogwood clan, visits 

 the house of the Shi'wanni of the West and receiving a prayer plume 

 from him, carries it to the chamber of the *Hle'wekwe. 



The ceremonials of the 'Hle'wekwe and of the Sword order of the 

 Great Fire fraternity are synchronous, and the two combine in most 

 elaborate dances. An hour before sunset on the third day five mem- 

 bers of the Great Fire fraternity, attired in their regalia, precede the 

 warrior of the 'Hle'wekwe, who has been visiting their fraternity, to 

 the chamber of the 'Hle'wekwe, where they dance and swallow their 

 swords. After the dance the *Hle'wekwe who visit the house of the 

 'hle'et'tone now return, bearing the prayer plumes and ha'kwawe (plural 

 of ha'kwani) which they have made. The *Hlem'mosona carries the 

 *hle'et'tone'* resting in a flat basket partially filled with meal, two stone 

 fetishes, and two ancient small bows and arrows which are kept with the 

 'hle'et'tone, cov^ered with his blanket, to the chamber of the *Hle'wekwe. 

 lie spi inkles meal before him with his right hand as he proceeds, from 

 one house to the other. On entering the ceremonial chamber he 

 removes the et'tone from the basket and, after sprinkling a thick bed 

 of meal on the west ledge of the room directly under the wall decora- 

 tion, deposits the sacred fetish upon the meal. Plate cviii shows 

 the dr}^ paintings and fetishes of the *Hle'wekwe. «, Et'tone; J, corn 

 husks containing the fluffy eagle plumes given by the novices to 

 the fraternity fathers; e, skins of bears' feet; 6?, mi'li of the frater- 

 nity", composed of banded turkey plumes and feathers of the long- 

 crested ja}" and the white dove; e, po'nepoyanne of the fraternity; 

 y, mi'wachi of such members of the 'Hle'wekwe as belong to the order 

 of M3^ster3' medicine of other fraternities; g, ancient bows and arrows; 

 A, stone fetishes; /, medicine bowls; k, archaic medicine bowl; I, prayer- 

 meal basket; ?;;, gourd water ju^; //, water vase; o, vase of popcorn 

 water. Since 1902 the ''Hle'wekwe have added to the ritual group 

 shown in the illustration a tablet altar similar to those used by other 

 fraternities. 



Each one having wrapped his own prayer plumes together, these are 

 grouped b}' the *Hlem'mosona with the offering of the Shi'wanni of 

 the West into a kia'etchine,^ and the ha'kwawe are wrapped around its 

 base and held in place by a cotton cord. After the kia'etchine has 

 been sprinkled with meal and prayed over by all the members of the 

 fraternity, each of the four men who accompany the bearer of the 

 kia'etchine to the spring in which it is to be deposited prepares eight 



a The thle'(5t'ton6 is covered with native cloth, and an ear of corn is placed on it, the corn being 

 completely obscured by prayer plumes, whose ends project beyond the package, and by elaborate 

 wrapping of precious bead necklaces which almost covers the white cloth and te'likinawe. 



(>The KTa'f'tchini" consists of a number of prayer plumes wrapped together at the base. 



