PARsoNsJ CALENDAR 289 



necember 1-20 "• Winter solstice ceremonial of Corn groups and medicine 



societies. 



December 12 Guadalupe day. Boys dressed as Navaho or as girls, 



and girls dressed as boys visit the houses of the 

 Lupes to dance and be given bread, etc. 



December 15 Bringing in the horned serpent. 



December 24 Lanterns on the roofs, and fires in the plaza and else- 

 where. Dance (nupoa shorti, Christmas dance going 

 in) within the church, before the midnight Mass. 



December 24-30 Households possessed of saints set them out at night, 



with candles, and people are invited in (Isletan, 

 ixiwe' ; Mexican, belorio) . 



December 25-28 Various dances, mostly by moiety, distinctively 



hawinaa'ye (named from song word). 



December 29 Clay models of the domestic animals, also of produce, 



are buried in the corrals, for increase. 



January 1 Election of secular officers; canes blessed. 



January 5-10 Kings' dance. 



January 10-14 Shunad, general exorcism of fields: Retreat by medicine 



societies. Rabbit hunt. 



January-February Kachina dances by Laguna people. 



January- February Kachina basket dance. 



February Season for initiation into medicine societies. 



February Liwa dance by moiety: Dance by shichu, for snow or 



rain. 



February-March Irrigation ditch ritual and dance. 



February-March Shinny played by moiety for four days. 



February-March Dark liwa dance, for weather and crops. Rabbit hunt. 



March Shure' take charge. Ceremony of transfer. 



March Ceremony to quiet wind, by medicine societies. 



March-April Races: War ceremonial (sporadically, performed in 



1925). 



April 8-11 Shure' ceremony. 



April Rain ritual. 



May 25-June 5 Ceremony of bringing down the moon and stars. 



June 1 San Escapu'la carried in antisunwise circuit four times 



around plaza by girl who was given to him at birth. 

 Family keeping this saint makes a feast."' 



June 1-20 Solstice ceremonial of Corn groups. 



June 20 Laguna people danee kachina. 



June 25, 29 San Juan's Day, San Pedro's Day. Boys carry from 



church blue flag of San Pedro, red flag of San Juan, 

 three times around town and to the fields. On 

 return carry corn stalks to church. Visit houses of 

 Juan.s, Juanas, Pedros, Paulas, etc.; given roosters, 

 bread, and cheese. First rooster placed near altar 

 for p»est. Rooster "race." 



July Lechide, 12-day rain ceremony. 



" In accordance with the calendar in other pueblos we begin willi tlie winter solstice ceremony, although 

 I have heard it referred to by an Isletan as " the last ceremony of the year." For another Isletan calendar 

 of a more Catholic cast, see Parsons, 9: 160-165. 



»' On Corpus Cristi (June 6, 1926) I heard of another private saint being brought out. 



