290 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



August 28 San Agostin. Mexican dancing in courthouse and in 



tents. Fair. In drought, prayer and song all night, 

 then Indians (or Mexicans) carry San Agostin out to 

 the fields. In 1926 the saint was carried out to the 

 Chikal fields. Two days later it rained so much 

 "they got soared." 



September 4 San Agostinito. Fiesta of Taikabede and Chikal. 



Chikal people sweep the plaza. Dance (nupoas- 

 horti), to thank the saint for the crops he has given. 

 At night, dance by all around fire (nahlllpoa, circle 

 dance) . Feast for visitors in public kiva, where San 

 Agostin is placed on a table altar. In drought, 

 image carried out to the fields, in charge of mayor- 

 domos. 



September 25-0 c t o b e r Pinitu dance for frost, preceded by night ceremony of 

 5 (sporadic) .'* bringing liwane into town, followed by rabbit hunt. 



October (end) sporadic.- Ceremony of bringing in Salt old woman. 



November 2 All Saints (po'yana or dia de todos santos) . Mexicans 



visit, making "responsos" and receiving left-overs 

 from what has been given to the priest from whom 

 they will also buy the bread given by the Isletans, 

 who first carry the bread around their graves, four 

 times, in antisunwise circuit. '* The graves are or 

 were sprinkled with holy water by the padre. Can- 

 dles on the graves. 



November 2-5 Black Eyes ceremony. 



October-November after Ceremony of Hunt chief, 

 harvest. 



Ceremonies and Ritual Complexes 



SOLSTICE ceremony OF THE CORN GROUPS (NAPE'i)'' 



The chief summons his assistants to his house to talk about begin- 

 ning their ceremony, saying inkaawei turide miwae wfekui (waeui), our 

 father Sun is going south (December solstice), or north (June solstice). 

 One assistant goes to the towTi chief to tell him they are going to begin 

 their ceremony in four days (December 4 or June 4), for during the 

 ceremony the town chief will remain in his ceremonial house. The 

 evening of the third day a Corn gr^up assistant goes to the houses of 

 all the men of the group, of all the wakuan, "his sons," to summon 

 them to a meeting at the chief's house, at which he will tell them that he 

 is going to begin to fast the following morning, for four days. If any 

 wish to fast for this time or for a shorter period, one, two, or three 

 days, they are to prepare for it. The following morning three men are 

 chosen to go to all the houses of the group to tell the people that their 

 wakukabede is going to fast and to say that if they wish they can 



" Danced in 1926. 



S5 Compare Census quoting Lummis. n2. 



^ The attendants at the ceremony are called penin. Pe' means bed for planting. 



