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patient. ''• If the prayer is not answered and the disease does not 

 show itself, the heart of the patient is not good.'' 



The Kia'kwemosi, in company with his associates, visited the patient 

 four nig-hts, one of the Beast Gods being appealed to each night to be 

 present and send pure winds from the four quarters of the earth to 

 heal the sick. The tirst ni^ht the Cougar of the North was appealed to 

 to send the pish'lankwin pi'naiye (north wind); the second night the 

 Bear of the West was invoked to send sun'hakwin pi'naiye (west wind); 

 the third night prayers were addressed to the Badger of the South to 

 send ta'wiakia pi'naiye (south wind); the fourth night the Wolf of the 

 East was besought to send te'wana pi'naiye (east wind). 



Only the mother and the doorkeeper, besides those ofhciating, were 

 present. The prayers of the Kia'kwemosi, which were repeated aloud, 

 must not be heard by any other person, else he would not be granted the 

 desired power. It must be borne in mind, however, that the Kia'kwe- 

 mosi officiated not in his capacity as rain priest, but as a member of 

 the order of Mystery medicine of an esoteric fraternity. His high 

 priestly position gives him additional power, as the A'shiwanni (rain 

 priests, of whom the Kia'kwemosi is the head) must be absolutely 

 pure of heart. 



'Chi'kialikwe (Rattlesnake Fraternity) 



The *Chi'kialikwe fraternitv is a division of the U'huhukwe and was 

 created in this wa}" A member accidentally stepped on one of the 

 bowls of medicine before the altar, breaking the bow^l and spilling the 

 medicine and also turning over a carving of the rattlesnake which 

 stood before the tablet altar. Some of the fraternity were very angry 

 with the man and violent words followed, until it was declared by the 

 offender's friends that a division of the fraternity must occur. The 

 division was called the Rattlesnake, for the reasons that the carved 

 snake had fallen over and been bathed in the medicine-water spilled 

 from the bowl, and that the fraternity quarreled like angry snakes. 



The functions of the two fraternities are the same. 



Ha'lo'kwe (Ant Fraternity) 



This fraternity has four orders — O'naya'nakia (Mystery medicine); 

 Ha'lo (Ant), sometimes called Pe'pe (Broom), because broom straws are 

 used in brushing from the body of the invalid the pebbles ''shot" 

 into it by the ants after they have been brought to the surface by the 

 theurgists; It'sepcho (Jugglery), and A'chiya (Stone knife). The 

 fraternity is sometimes referred to as the A'chiya ti'kianne." 



The male membership of this fraternity is large, but in 1896 there 

 were only four female members. Only men belong to the A'chiya order. 



aTi'klanne is another name for ti'kili (fraternity). 



