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Among the Laguna Fathers are cited a Snake doctor (piruka'ade) 

 and an Ant doctor (mtu ka'ade), a hunt doctor (sho'ka'ade, shoniiwe, 

 hunter) who works for hunters, also one who performs ritual for a 

 new house, setting out his Mother in it and an arrow point (no altar 

 design), and burying in the middle of the floor, also hanging in the 

 midmost place in the roof, behind a beam so as not to show, three 

 tied prayer feathers (?sticks) (nato'ye) such as are used in the iiwade 

 ceremony. . . The Ant doctor was taught by Juan Rey, of the 

 Laguna inunigration. 



Although among the Lagima Fathers there are now no Laguna men 

 or even men of Laguna descent it seems probable from its name and 

 other facts that the society was originally organized by Laguna 

 immigrants; ^^ a fact wMch would explain the greater degree of 

 specialization, since the original Laguna members must have belonged, 

 in accordance \vith what we know of Lagima history and ceremonial 

 organization, to dift'erent Laguna societies. Of one Laguna member 

 of the Laguna Fathers we have an interesting history. This was Juan 

 Rey or Sheiide (Laguna name).*'' He was one of the original Laguna 

 immigrants and one who was especially desired to remain at Isleta 

 because of liis power. He was an Ant doctor and a stick swallower 

 (takoonin)."' In 1923 he planned to move from Isleta to Sandia 

 where he sent on ahead a box contauiing his swallowing sticks as well 

 as the canes of ofRce of the sometime governor and officers of the 

 Laguna colony. A woman told somebody about this, who told the 

 governor, who told the cacique of the Laguna colony. "They had a 

 meeting about it. They w^ould not let Juan Rey go to Sandia until 

 they got back his box. They sent some men for it. Then Rey went 

 to Sandia. After a year he died. He did not last long because he 

 broke his promise to do his ceremony at Isleta." . . . Rey had used 

 the house of the Laguna Fathers for his ceremony to which only 

 Lagima people went, no Isletans. There is no stick swallowing now. 

 It was Juan Rey who made the pictures on the walls of the Idva of 

 the Laguna Fathers. It was CasUdo of Laguna who taught the pres- 

 ent fire maker his ritual of fire building and of exposing himself to 

 fire.«5» 



Chief of the Town Fathers is Rey(es) Zuni or Turshanpaw'iepi^yu 

 (sunrise lake hght), aged 60, Black Eyes, White Corn. His chief 



•s This origin is denied, as might be expected, by the townspeople. *' They had birka'an, Laguna Fathers, 

 at Isleta before the Laguna people came. When they came up (i. e., at the emergence) they were already 

 named birka'an," Possibly the organization does antedate any particular migration from Laguna, merely 

 showing Keresim influence. 



*' Possibly from the shahaiye, the Laguna society of which the Ants and the Giants (shkuyu) were 

 subdivisions or orders. 



" Tako is the shuttle used iu weaving. This is the kind of stick that is swallowed. Compare Lummis 

 2; 83. 



"■ Compare Lummis 2: 80. 



