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cattle, and sheep, with their eagle plumes. When the group returns 

 from the houses to the ciu-ing chamber the doctors vomit forth various 

 objects wliich they have sucked out. When the doctors have all 

 returned the headman rubs then- eyes again with the ma'caiyoyo, and 

 if they see any witches they go out again. Sometunes they fight 

 with witches which they find Im'king about the houses. The doctors 

 return to the chamber, after a fight with witches, smeared with 

 "blood and black." 



It is now time to get the winock (heart). -^ Naicoia rubs the eyes of 

 three or four medicine men, and they go out to get the "heart." 

 They wear their bear paws and carry flint Itnives. They go arm in 

 arm. A war chief accompanies them. 



After a time they return. A medicine man representing a bear 

 and called k'ohaiya (bear) comes in first. He crawls on his hands 

 and knees, grimting like a bear. He carries the winock (heart) 

 between the bear paw in his left hand and the flint in liis right. Two 

 other medicine men representing mountain lions stay up on top of 

 the chamber a while, fighting; then they come into the chamber. 

 K'ohaiya (the "bear" medicine man) crawls along the floor, going 

 toward the altar. The head medicine man grabs the heart away from 

 him. The other doctors then seize him quickly and hold him, for 

 he fights violently. The mountain lions fight, too. The headman 

 and one or two others sprinkle them with medicine from their eagle 

 plumes. Gradually they become quiet; they lie down on the floor as 

 if completely exhausted. " 



Naicnia now takes the heart to the altar. He kneels, facing the 

 people, and begins to imtie the strings which bind the winock (heart). 

 Each strmg he scorches at a tallow hght and then deposits it in the 

 refuse bowl. He imvvTaps the rags. Inside are many kernels of com. 

 He lays aside defective grains.^ He tells the people that they should 

 be very thankful to receive the heart from their mother, latik". 



A medicine woman brings the headman a basket for the shelled com. 

 Again the com is examined, the defective grains being placed by the 

 medicine bowls. Then he goes about the room distributing the com 

 to the people. Each person receives one grain. He goes to the west 

 side first, then south, then east. He goes into the side room where 

 the women with small children are. He gives each woman a grain for 

 herself and one for each child. If the child is too small to swallow his 

 kernel the mother chews it for the child and spits it into his mouth. 



'1 Among the eastern Keres the winock represents the heart of a patient which has been stolen by a 

 witch. In the present instance this heart is said to have been made at Cipap« by latik", the mother of the 

 Indians. It is a ball of rags, with a quantity of shelled com in the center. 



" The "lion" medicine men try to escape. They are restrained, for, it is said, if they got away they 

 would become real mountain lions. 



" It is said that one person will die in the village for each defective grain. 



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