parsons] CEEEMONIAL ORGANIZATION 271 



(poplar kick stick), aged 30, Black Eyes; his other male assistant, 

 Salanion Lenti or Turshure (a red bird, see p. 274), aged 25-27, Black 

 Eyes; his fenaale assistant, Predicana Abeita or P'ienbese' (mountain, 

 terrace cloud design), aged 27, Black Eyes. 



The skin of a magpie is displayed on the altar in their ceremonial.^ 

 But in their prayer feathers no magpie feather is used. Our inform- 

 ant insisted that k'oaran (fig. 5) did 

 not mean magpie which was k'oara'de. 

 There is another very similar sounding 

 word for bluebird, koara'de, and it is 

 by this term that a child belonging 

 to the group might be jeered at.^ 



Chief of the Poplars (narkabede) is 

 Vicente Wanchu or Naride (poplar), 

 aged 40, shure'. His assistants are: 

 Chief, Alcario Harmio or Tuefuni 

 (cane black)," aged 22, shure'; and 

 Juan Bautista Lucero or Ati (a, me- 

 tate; ti, grinding motion), aged 22, T-,,„„^t r-. i -a .-^a^a-. 



> ) b t> /) & ^ ) Figure 5.— Kijaran (unidentified bird) 



shure'. The women are: Dominga 



Armijo or Pfechuri (road, yellow), aged 35, shure' ; Lolita Carpio 

 or Koawa (spruce branch), aged 30, shure'; Josefina Jiron or Shiepap 

 (prayer feather spread), aged 25, shure'. 



14. EARTH PEOPLE (YELLOW CORN) 



The chief is Domingo Churina or Turbatoa (sun bright), aged 40, 

 shure'. His assistants are: Chief, Lelo Abeita or Kukuyu (Laguna 

 word), aged 35, Black Eyes; Jose' Abeita, brother to Lelo, aged 30, 

 Black Eyes. The women are: Josepita Ansela or lechuri (com 

 yellow), aged from 60 to 65, shure'; Marcellina Abeita or Maxo 

 (circle), aged 40, shure'; Rufina Lucero or Mapo (ear of corn with 

 glumes, see p. 217), aged 35, shure'. (Gen. I, 10.)^ 



15. water-bubbling people (pachirl) * and cane-blowing people 

 (tutenehu') ' (blue corn) 



These divisions, like the Black Corn divisions, are alternately in 

 charge of the ceremony; and here, too, the divisional membership is 

 optional with the parent. 



' We recall the bird skins on Hopi altars. 

 » Compare p. 273, D. 14. 



' Referring to the Mother; i. e., fetLsh of the Pachirnin. 

 " Discrepancy in family name is deliberate. 



* Or pachirnin, meaning, according to one informant, water red shell. 



' Another ctymologj^ tu, cane, tene. long, did not seem convincing to the informant. The chief of the 

 group has no cane. See pp. 372 and 270. 



