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These Corn groups have no Corn mother fetishes, but "mothers" — 

 i. e,, fetishes — I infer, they do have. A bhick cane was referred to 

 as the Mother of the Tutenehu Blue Corn people. 



The Corn groups are named and are associated conceptually and 

 ritually with the corn of the five color directions as follows: 



12. to'tainin, Day people: our mother white corn, Idkewe'i iabato 



(ie', corn, bato, white), east. 



13. narnin, Poplars 



. -yr-aat OUT mothcr black corn, kikewe'i iefvmi, north, 



koaran, Magpies ""J 



14. namtainin. Earth people: our mother yellow corn, kikewe'i 



iechuri, west. 



15. pachirnin, Water-bubbling (people)lour mother blue corn, 

 tuteneh\i', Cane blowing through. J kikewe'i iech9ri, south. 



16. ietaide, Corn person] 



,„ (shvu, Eagle our mother mixed corn, kikewe'i k'uabo- 



' (koi, Goose tim. Up, down, and middle. 



18. shichu J 



12. DAY PEOPLE (WHITE CORN) 



This group takes precedence of the others in so far as its chief 

 (natoyim) goes into retreat at the solstices one day in advance of the 

 others. The group is the largest of all the Corn groups.' Its chief 

 is the leading man, as it happens, in town, distinguished by his wealth, 

 American education, and no doubt by his character. He is Pablo 

 Abeita or Turw'iv (sun kick stick); aged about 50. He belongs to 

 the Black Eyes. His assistants are: Chief assistant, Jose' Hohola - 

 or Na'bato (whiteness), brother of the chief of the shure', aged 35, 

 shure'; Patricio Lujan or Shiepyyu (prayer feather light) (Gen. I, 11), 

 who was vowed in sickness by his father, aged 35, Black Eyes; Juan 

 Rey Lucero or Paw'iapyyu (lake light), aged 22, shure'; and as women 

 assistantsor keide, Beatris Orgen or Kity (meal altar design, see p. 279), 

 aged 25, shure'; Maria Maruxo or la' (coi'n silk), aged 30, shure'; 

 Juana Batista or Toyo (prayer stick little), aged 25, Black Eyes. 



13. MAGPIES (k'oARAN) AND POPLARS (NARNIN) (BLACK CORN) 



These divisions alternate in taking charge of the ceremony. It is 

 optional with the parent to which division the child may belong. 



Cliief of the Magpies is Bautista Zuni^ or Turshan (sunrise), aged 

 70, shure'; his first assistant being Domingo Hohola or Narw'iv 



^^ Identified through Spanish term oraka. 



1 Yellow Corn is the ne.xt largest group. Practically all the hierarchic offices are filled by ret)resentatives 

 of the White and Yellow Corn groups. 



2 Not kin to the chief. 



3 In December, 1925, he died, and the solstice ceremony was not performed by the group. It was said 

 that at the following June solstice ceremony the first assistant would be installed cliief. 



