272 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



Chief of the Water-bubbling people is Juan Lucero or Qpuyu 

 (leaf light), aged 35, shure'. He took office in December, 1925. 

 His chief assistant is Romaldo Abeita or Shieto (prayer feather 

 marked) who is 50, conspicuously senior to his chief, the explanation 

 given that he was perhaps vowed to the group but lately. He is 

 Black Eyes. The other assistants are, male, Macellino Hohola or 

 Kieto (standing mark), aged 18, shure'; female, Reyes Zuni '" or 

 Kyena (I place it), aged 40, shure'; Oloxia Montoya or Hoakire 

 (hoa, sacrosanct bundle, kire, lay), aged 32, Black Eyes; Lupita 

 Churina or P'ienao (mountain leaf), aged 40, shure' (Gen. IV, 14). 



Chief of the Cane-blowing people is Juan Jose Usolo or Po'u 

 (cane), aged 40, shure'. His chief assistant, and he has but one male 

 assistant, is Tomas Chabe (Chaves) or Kimu (mountain hon), aged 

 20, Black Eyes; his female assistant is Rehina Lenti or Wiwia (tail 

 plaque, referring to the plaque girt with feathers worn in dances). 



16. CORN PEOPLE (iETAININ) (aLL COLORS CORN) 



This group may serve as a kind of omnibus group for disaffected 

 members of the other Corn groups. Were a man to fall out with the 

 chief of his own Corn group — he may have been cliided, for example, 

 for reveahng the religion — he irught go to the chief of All Colors 

 group who would advise him to go back to his own Corn group or, if 

 his own chief is to blame, would retain him in All Colors group. 

 Such a situation rose within the family of the group's chief. His 

 son," a Blue Com man, having quarreled with the Blue Corn people, 

 now participates in the ceremony of the Corn people, the ceremony 

 of which his own father is chief. 



Chief of the main group, the ietaide kabede, is Jos6 Padilla or 

 lebato (corn white), aged [?] 40, shure'. His chief assistant is Felipe 

 Vilardi or Berseu (kiva cloud terrace design hearth), aged 30, Black 

 Eyes. He has no other male assistants. His female assistants are: 

 Maria Torres or Nabato (whiteness), aged 50, Black Eyes; Hertrudes 

 Vilardes or Berkwj or Rainbow, aged 25, Black Ej^es. 



The group has three subdivisions or splits-off: Eagle, Goose, and 

 Shichu. 



17. EAGLE AND GOOSE PEOPLE (aLL COLORS CORN) 



Eagle and Goose alternate in taking charge of their ceremony. 

 These groups separated as recently as 1923, from the Corn people, 

 the present Eagle people chief (shyut'aikabede) taking with him, on 

 his withdrawal, his ceremonial children; i. e., those members of the 

 mother group to whom he had been ceremonial father, 15 persons; 



1" Her mother belongs to the Whito Corn people. 



" One of the two Padillas among the Laguna Fathers. 



