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bits from the piles of food, one passing to the right, one to the left 

 (see p. 299), and to take to the ash pile. The moiety chiefs also send 

 assistants to collect from the piles of food, the Black Eyes assistant 

 going to the right, the shure' to the left. These several messengers 

 return and report. The food that is left is now taken to the houses 

 of the medicine societies where the town chief in one house, his assist- 

 ant in the other, presents the food. The Fathers exorcise the food with 

 their feathers and remove the food Loto an adjacent room. . . . 



The Fathers are nude but for a clout of buckskin to which a fringe 

 of tin pendants is attached. There is a hne of white paint across the 

 chest and lightning zigzags in white on arms and legs, two on the 

 outside of each arm and leg, two on the inside. The Town Fathers 

 have the body spotted with yellow 

 paint, the Laguna Fathers spot with 

 cotton. For both groups there is a 

 line of pakalama pigment, presumably 

 micaceous hematite, across the bridge 

 of the nose and imder the eyes. In 

 the hair is worn a prayer feather 

 (lawashie), a downy eagle feather 

 painted with red pigment (napiewi), 

 which is also smeared on the hair-part- 

 ing.^ A necklace of bear claws is worn, 

 the claws fastened to a strip of bear 

 fur, and the precious p^shko or crystal 

 for second sight is pendent from the 

 neck. There is a wristlet (kafi) of cow- 

 hide set with arrow points or olivella 

 shells. The two exorcising eagle feath- 

 ers are carried in the left hand, a bear 

 paw is in the right. (Fig. 1.5.) 



To return to the ceremony, after 

 "cleaning up" thefood,theFatherstake 

 position in front of their altar (figs. 16, 

 17) ; they dance; they circulate among the people, saying truhi' ! truhi' ! 

 The chief assistant passes from the altar to the door, making brushing 

 motions with his feathers. He is cleaning the road ; and at the door he 

 makes the cutting or slicing and discarding motions with the feathers. 

 Two assistants go around the walls, one going in one direction, one in 

 the other, exorcising -with their feathers. One goes to the fireplace in 

 the ceremonial room and one to the fireplace in the next room, where 



Figure 15.— Town Fatber 



" Compare Laguna, Parsons 8 : 119. Also a Tewa practice. 



