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you receive me friendly?" the war chief again asks. "Yes! Come 

 in." The war cliief enters and says " Guatzi ! " ("Hello"). "Dawai! 

 eh!" rephes the medicine man. The medicine man brings a stool 

 for the war chief and seats him. Then he makes a corn-husk cigarette 

 for the war chief. Wlien the war chief has laid down his cigarette 

 the medicine man asks, "Now, father, what do you want with me?" 

 The war chief tells him that the cacique has decided that a communal 

 ciu-ing ceremony is necessary and that he wishes the medicine societies 

 to make the necessary preparations. The war chief then places the 

 waBani and the itsatyim" in the medicine man's hands, and, placing 

 his own under those of the doctor, prays. Then he leaves. 



The headman calls his men together and tells them to prepare for 

 a curing ceremony. Each medicine man places his hands under the 

 basket containing the wasani and the itsatyim" and prays. Then 

 naicnia (the headman) divides these articles among the doctors. 

 Each goes out and prays, buiying the articles afterwards. Later a 

 joint meeting is held by the two societies in one of the chambers. '° 

 They decide upon a date for the ceremony. The war chief informs 

 the cacique. The cacicjue instructs the war chief to publish the news 

 to the people.'^ The ceremony will be held foiu' days after the 

 announcement is made. 



On the day the announcement is made the "little cliiefs" (the 

 tcukacac hotceni; the war chief's aides) bring the unmarried girls to 

 the war chief's house, where they shell corn. Then the little chiefs 

 take this corn about through the village, leaving it at various houses to 

 be ground. The women return the com meal to the house of the war 

 chief. Then the little chiefs take the meal to various houses to be 

 made into guayaves (little loaves of bread). They also take wood 

 from the woodpile of the war chief to the houses to cook the bread. 

 The women return with the guayaves on the third day. The war 

 chief gives them some for their trouble. (The war chief has kept 

 back half of the com meal and flour to give to the medicine men.) 

 The httle chiefs go about the village asking for meat for the feast 

 (w hich is to take place on the night of the curing). On the third day 

 the people of the village divide themselves (approximately) into 

 three divisions, each one to supply the medicine men with one of the 

 day's meals. On the fourth day the women are busy preparing food 

 to be given the medicine men that evening. 



The medicine men vomit with herb brew every morning for four 

 mornings preceding the cure. On the day before the ceremony they 

 retire to their houses. They set up their altars. They paint the 

 walls of their chambers with pictures of bears, eagles, mountain 

 lions, snakes, and, perhaps, some k'atsina or koshare. 



'* It will be remembered that kuuina joined the Flint Society in cures. 



'* This news is published by the war chief, who w.illvs through the streets of the pueblo instead of calling 

 from n hou-setop, as is done at other pueblos. 



