508 THE ZUNI INDIANS [eth. anx. 23 



Fire fraternity to join the Hopi order, but the director refuses all 

 increase of membership, declaring it to have been the wish of his 

 uncle to keep his secrets confined to a few. The paraphernalia, 

 belonging to this order remained for a long time in the home of the 

 director, but during a visit of the writer to Zuni it was removed to 

 the home of his fraternity child of the Little Fire fraternity, who is 

 a woman and the Avife of a Mexican captured (when a child) by the 

 Zunis and afterward adopted into the tribe." When an invalid desires 

 the presence of a shaman of the Hopi order, he wraps meal in a corn 

 husk and a member of the family is dispatched with it, with a request 

 for the doctor to visit the inv-alid. The shaman, like the theurgist, is 

 usually paid after each visit with calico, cotton, or food, according to 

 the wealth of the family, since it is always understood that these 

 doctors expect proper compensation for their services. 



Some time ago reports came to Zufii that a man of the Snake f rater- 

 nit}' at Murshong'nuvi intended creating an order such as the one 

 described, or, rather, reestablishing it, and the Zuni director hastened 

 to Murshong'nuvi, but the old man declared that he had had no such 

 intention. He said: " I know well that the deceased director did not 

 intend that anyone should continue the order among the Hopi, and we 

 should be afraid to do so." 



Considerable jealousy is felt by the Zunis over the feats performed 

 l)y the Hopi. A theurgist of the Little Fire fraternit}-, referring to 

 the Hopi jugglers, declared them to be great. He said: 



Once, when a friend and 1 were visiting Walpi, a member of the order of Jugglery 

 of the Snake fraternity called to us to give him a head-kerchief. My friend handed 

 his to the man, who first held it at diagonal corners; then he pulled it, first through 

 one hand and then through the other, beginning each time midway of the head-ker- 

 chief, on the bias. He then pressed it to his breast and presently threw down two 

 snakes, which at once moved about. The head-kerchief was nowhere to be seen. 

 He secured the snakes, and, pressing them to his breast, the head-kerchief soon 

 reappeared. 



ORDER OF PA'yATAMU OF THE LITTLE FIRE FRATERNITY 



Though the present Zunis, as a class, believe the Little Fire frater- 

 nity to have originated with the Hopis and to have been introduced by 

 them into the A'shiwi ritual, they do not credit the order of Pa'yatiimu 

 of this fraternit}'^ as coming from the Hopi Indians; yet the two peo- 

 ples' ideas of the god of music are so similar that it is more than 

 probable that he has been borrowed by one or the other. The Zuiii 

 legend regarding the origin of the order of Pa'yatamu is as follows: 



The gods of war while strolling about the country some :3 miles east of Zuni, were 

 attracted by very sweet music and they proceeded to learn its source. On approach- 

 ing the mesa Shun'te'kiaya they discovered that the music issued from a spring 

 (bearing the same name as the mesa; and also A'mitolan te^poula, rainbow covering 



^This Mexican is not allowed to observe the masked dances, but they occur in his house (when he 

 nnist absent himself), since he has left the home of the mother-in-law for a residence of his own. 



