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or blade, which they also pass over the walls of the room. The chief 

 tells those present "to forget it ^^ all; it is dow foiir years he is dead." 

 The altar is removed, the corn meal given to the man of the house 

 to give to the river or to bury in his field. A Corn assistant takes 

 out bits of food to give to Waeide and the dead. (See p. 341.) All 

 present eat. What is left over the Corn assistants divide for them- 

 selves, leaving one basketful and one bowlful for the household. The 

 chief gives permission for all to withdraw. 



A deceased chief is painted (color unknown) on his pahns, elbows, 

 soles, and knees. As in ceremonies, red paint is put on the hair 

 parting of the deceased chief of either medicine society. Also hght- 

 ning marks are painted in white on arms and legs. On the fourth 

 night the deceased is exorcised, not from his dweUing, but from his 

 ceremonial house. His own Corn group chief functions as usual. 



After the ceremony on the fom'th night, attendants are free to go 

 out "to do their work," but they would not go visiting dming the 

 following eight days. 



The dead go to Wmida,^'' the underground world, whence the people 

 came up. Shipapung, the Keresan term for this world, was referred 

 to as a place lived in after the people emerged or again as the spring 

 whence the Black Eyes ^' emerged. 



SECULAR GO\'ERNMENT 



The secular officers who are annually chosen are the governor 

 (tabude or piba'kaade (? wet head or baptism father)), the lieutenant 

 governor, auki'i (the regular word for vice or assistant) or teniente, 

 and a second teniente. There are six war^* captains, wilawe, three 

 from each moiety, besides the three war captains chosen by the 

 Laguna colonists, but cooperating with the war captains of Isleta. 

 There are also two sherifl's (kabeude) who alternate each week, two 

 mayordomo to take charge of the irrigation ditch, and a crier 

 (tokwini'de) who has been chosen by the townspeople, but whose 

 office is permanent. The present crier, a man of 55, has held the 

 position for 20 years. He is exempt from other forms of community 

 service. There is a permanent sacristan (tjimide). There is no office 

 of fiskale, as elsewhere. 



In addition to the aforesaid officers there is a coimcU of 12 men, 

 tonyinmin, translated as councilmen. The same men have been in 



« One who does not forget, but worries, may be incensed, as elsewhere, with smoke from hair combings 

 from the deceased. 



« Identified by Lucinda with welima, which is the wenima of the Keres, the western home of the kachina. 

 See too p. 239. By another informant wimdaat was translated " dead, gone to the land of the dead." 



" See pp. 263, 360. 



*B According to one informant " the little captains" (wilaweun) are always 12, 6 from each moiety. 



