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initiate and the Mother. Over them the chief puts back the manta. 

 Then from under the manta the Mother draws forth the new iema'- 

 paru which through the power of the chief has been born from the 

 Mother. The chief shows the iema'paru to those present who say 

 ha'u! ha'u! thanks! thanlvs! The Mother and the initiate sprinkle 

 meal on the iema'paru. The chief with his feathers takes the initiate 

 to tlie next room; i. e., the initiate follows the chief holding to the tips 

 of the feathers, . . . The new iema'paru is placed to the light of 

 the altar blade and all, beginning with the father or wife of the 

 initiate, have to sprinkle meal on it. Then the Fathers sprinkle it 

 with meal. 



The Fathers perform the smoking ritual, in the du-ections and to 

 the new iema'paru. All the men present smoke. The chief preaches 

 about the new iema'paru or keide and how everything has come out 

 well. The chief fetches back the initiate, holding behind to the tips of 

 the feathei's. The initiate, who has now the power of clairvoyance, and 

 the chief stand looking at the people whose hearts they can see and 

 tell what they are thinking about. Again the initiate is seated next 

 to the Mother and around them the Fathers sit in a senucircle. The 

 chief tells the hiitiate to stand and look into the medicine bowl. 

 Sometimes the initiate faints when he first looks into the bowl, for 

 the first things he sees are dead persons. The Fathers are singing. 

 The others are asldng Wseide to help the initiate. xV second and 

 third time he looks into the bowl. The chief takes the "sun" which 

 has lain to the right of the altar blade and puts it on top of the manta 

 with which he has covered the Mother and the initiate. Now is the 

 time the initiate is going to be born, a new ka'a. The others give 

 animal and bird calls. The chief is standing with his arms around 

 the Mother and the initiate under the manta. The chief calls out 

 manabe'puwe Wffiide, "thank God." Then they know he is being 

 born. All the Fathers stand. One holds the Mother, the cliief and 

 his assistant hold the initiate. In her place to the right they seat 

 the Mother again, giving her a drink from the medicine bowl. From 

 under the manta the mitiate comes forth as a bear.-"" "That is the 

 way they ai'e born, in the form of a bear." 



They lead the bear to his wife or father whom he slaps with his 

 paws and from him or her takes out a naioa which he places in front 

 of the new iema'paru. Then bear who is being held under the arms 

 by one of the assistants takes naloa from all present, including the 

 fathers who are sitting in the usual place beliind the altar. Then 

 bear from his position in front of the altar blade "cleans" the beings 

 represented on the walls. (PI. 17.) The chief gives him his own 

 seat, the middle one, in the line of the Fathers, who now perform 

 smoking ritual, giving thanks to "God." The Fathers repeat the 



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