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the council now for five years; before that three or four men, the less 

 useful members, would be replaced each year, the new members 

 being appointed by the governor. "Smart young boys who know 

 more than old people in some ways " are ehgible as well as ex-governors 

 or ex-lieutenant governors. The present incumbents are: President 

 (chumi'), Jose Hohola (chief assistant White Corn); vice president 

 (ebe'shiwei), Bautista Zuiii (some time governor, Town Father, chief 

 of the Magpies); Simon Zufli (some time governor, thrice in office); 

 Dabi (David) Lucero (some time lieutenant governor) ; Erudiz Hohola 

 (some time second lieutenant governor); Remez Serafico; Domingo 

 Churma (chief of Earth people); and, referred to as "boys," Domingo 

 Hohola (assistant. Magpies. Erudiz is his father's brother, meme); 

 Rumaldo Hohola, Pasqual Abeita, Lazaro Abeita, Joe Abeita (son of 

 Pablo Abeita). 



After Christmas there will be two or three meetings at the governor's 

 house to discuss new officers. The night of December 31 there is a 

 final meeting at the house of the town chief to decide on *^ three 

 candidates for governor. All the Fathers are present. On January 

 1 there is a public meeting at the courthouse or pubUc kiva to vote on 

 the candidates. Any married man, whatever his age, may be a voter. 

 "Boj's" or unmarried men must be 22 or so. Out of the three can- 

 didates one will probably be left behind on the first vote. Then the 

 to^\'n chief makes an address, telling the men they must choose be- 

 tween the two with the highest number of votes. Sometunes there 

 is a big fight, and the agent is called in as arbiter. The town chief 

 A\dll advise with Mm. There are two candidates also for the office of 

 head war captain. The man who is elected war captain chooses his 

 assistants. The newly elected governor asks the town chief to choose 

 the lieutenant governor, but the town chief will say, "No; you have 

 to choose him yourself." Then the governor chooses him, but he 

 says to the meeting if they do not like his choice, to choose for them- 

 selves. But the meeting will accept liis choice. The appointee will 

 say to the town chief that he does not want the office of lieutenant 

 governor, but the town chief will insist upon his acceptance. All 

 present choose the teniente and sheriffs. 



After these elections, which may take from one to three days, the 

 town chief, kumpa, and the war chief meet in the ceremonial house of 

 the town chief "to bless the canes," like the padre, by sprinkling with 

 their own pakwimpa (medicine water) . What else they may do " to get 

 power for the canes," which are used in all secular cases as well as in 

 the ceremony of general exorcism,*" was not Icnown. The town chief 

 takes the canes to the courthouse where he gives them to the new 



'6 In the account which maintains that there is a vacancy in the town chieftaincy, it is kumpa 

 (kumpawilawe ch'umida (7 presiding)) who nominates the governor. (Parsons, 8: 159.) 

 » See p. 307. 



