PARSONS] CALENDAR 313 



This doctoring by exorcising may be kept up until the early mornmg, 

 about 3 a. ni., when the tawinide" ritual begins. The chief begins 

 to dance to the singing of his assistants. Presently a rabbit is seen 

 in his hand, there through his power. He gives the rabbit to the 

 hunt chief who says ha'u'! ha'u! ha'u! (thanks! thanks! thanks!) and 

 gives it to the war chief who stands out in the middle of the room 

 showing the rabbit to the people and saying, "What power our 

 Fathers have, to bring in a live rabbit! Believe in them!" The war 

 chief gives the rabbit to the chief who places it near the altar, drawing 

 a circle around it with his stone point, "tying it so it can not move 

 away." Agam the chief shows the people his hands empty. He 

 moves around, sits down, sways, comes to, saying ahi! ahi! truhi, 

 truhi! He has something imder his left arm, and he whistles. The 

 lightning flashes, the thunder sounds. You hear the rain falling into 

 the medicine bowl into which lightning has also passed, and thunder. 

 If it is going to be a good year the thunder sounds several times, if a 

 bad year with no rain, it sounds once or t'wice only or perhaps three 

 times. The chief summons an assistant who shows the tawinide of 

 the crops — corn and wheat sproutmg in mud — to the town chief, the 

 hunt chief, and the war chief, all saying ha'u! ha'u! The chief makes 

 the drawing in gestures from the corn ears pictured on the walls 

 (pi. 17), and his hands fiU ^\■ith kernels, of which he gives three, 

 first to the town chief, then to the other Fathers, then to ever>' one 

 present. (It is for this, to get the new seeds, the people like to go to 

 this ceremony.) Sometimes the chief vnll draw the seeds, not from 

 the wall pictures, but from the altar ears.*'" He shakes the iema'paru 

 out of which the grains fall for the people to scramble for. 



Finally they clean the road. It is nearly sunrise. All smoke 

 ritually. The chief addresses the people, holding in liis hand two 

 or three of the iema'paru, and at the end of his talk, displaying them 

 in wa^^ng motions to the people who breathe from their own clasped 

 hands. 



Four assistants stand up, two with bowls of medicme water, two 

 with dippers. They pah' ofl', taking different sides of the room to 

 give the medicine water to the people. Visits are exchanged between 

 the two houses of the medicine societies, each sending six members 

 to the house of the other to cleanse with their feathers the people in 

 the house. After this the war chief gives the people permission to 

 go home. The Fathers remain to remove the altar and to dress. 

 The bear and lion claw necklace each has worn must be removed by 



^" In English rendered "new year"; but this is probably a paraphrase since new year is tawin (ye:ir) 

 kui (good). 

 ="• Compare Lummis 2 : 8.5, 253. 



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