308 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



west, or Tq,kenatua in the southeast, or Turjur'manatua, yellow bird 

 hill (northeast). . . . This day the war chief will send two wagons 

 to the mountains to get wood for the houses of the medicine societies. 



On the second day aU the men go out to the hunt. The women 

 stay home preparing food to take to the medicine societies. The war 

 chief is oiit with his assistant war captains, and he talks to the hunters, 

 telling them they have to hunt for the Fathers. . . . The himt is 

 over early in the afternoon, the hunters going to the ceremonial house 

 of the town chief, with their rabbits at theii- belt. Here the war 

 chief tells them that the day following they will clean town. In the 

 evening the same annoimcement is made from the housetop. That 

 evening also the war captains skin and cook the rabbits. The war 

 chief appoints two or three men to sweep and clean each roundhouse, 

 and the churchyard; and two or three to visit the houses to see that 

 people send away any Mexican or white they might be entertaining. 

 The Laguna settlement is also visited to teU the people not to let any 

 Mexicans who may be there come into the town. 



On the third day eveiybody, including the children, is at work 

 cleaning up. People sweep all day; wagons come into the plaza to 

 collect and haid away refuse, governor and officers supervising. 

 General traffic is diverted from the road tkrough the plaza to the 

 road around the town. 



On the fourth day all the chiefs of the Com groups and the hunt 

 chief go to the house of a war captain; nobody walks through the 

 street of the town chief, which is closed. The war captains go from 

 house to house asking for h^ide, a ceremonial word for beans, apples, 

 peaches, meats of all kinds, to carry to the house of the war chief 

 (house 8), where they make a pile, adding to the pUe already here 

 of cooked rabbits. These supphes are taken to the houses of the 

 medicine societies. The war chief calls out how the Corn groups are 

 to be distributed between the houses of the medicine societies: 

 Always the Wliite Com group are assigned to the Town Fathers, and 

 the Yellow Corn group to the Laguna Fathers, the other groups being 

 divided between the two houses, in varying order. The towTi chief 

 and kumpahave togo to the Town Fathers; the town chief 's assistant ^- 

 and the kabew'iridi, to the Laguna Fathers. Similarly the chief 

 assistant in each Com group goes to the house the cliief does not 

 go to. 



At noon, in the house of the war chief, the town chief talks to the 

 people, describing the ceremony, and telling of the expectations of 

 crops. He sprinkles meal in the directions and to the pUes of food. 

 He gives permission to take food out to Wieide and the dead. The 

 war chief and the head war captain each sends an assistant to gather 



« This reference I do not understand, as in other connections the only assistant of the town chief is 

 kumpa. 



