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feather cleansing ritual. The chief leads bear in front of the altar 

 blade, where the town chief and kumpa sprinkle liim with meal, 

 followed by his wife or father, and the others. The cliief leads bear 

 in to the next room where his bearskin falls ofl:'. The chief paints 

 him all over with pakalama (a blue-black pigment), spots him all over 

 with cotton, and gives him his eagle feathers and stone point. They 

 return quickly. The peo])le pray, and some of them will cry. The 

 initiate sprinkles meal on his own iema'paru, which the chief gives 

 him to hold in his right hand, resting it in the crook of his left ann, 

 the left arm folded over the right forearm. In this position he 

 preaches to the people, giving thanks for eveiy thing having come out 

 well. After this he is led by the cliief to his permanent seat, at the 

 end of the line of Fathers, with his iema'paru in front of him, and 

 his living "mother," the keide, to sit ne.xt to him. After so placing 

 her, the chief takes his own seat in the middle of the Une. Now the 

 chief assistant and then others and the initiate stand in front of the 

 altar blade, the chief assistant showing the initiate the crystal to look 

 into and see the world. Then all go out, going in the directions, all 

 aroimd the world. The,y return and resume their seats. One of the 

 assistants gives a drink of the medicine water to all present, with 

 permission to leave. The Fathers remain. The altar is dismantled 

 (see p. 298). In the morning the chief assistant conducts the initiate 

 home, where people come to call on him. . . . 



LIWAPOIl OR SH.A.RU'fOR (LAND TURTLE DANCE) ^'' 



This is danced in February, at no fi.xed time.^' The moiety chiefs 

 are the managers; and the moiety Grandfathers (te'en) come out to 

 play, but the shichu Corn group has a projninent part, presenting a 

 distinctive night dance which is to call the snow or rain. 



The name of the general dance, land turtle dance, indicates that it 

 is a shure' dance, most significant evidence that the shure' arc, 

 Winter people. (See, too, p. 262, n. 76.) Both moieties are represented , 

 however, in the dance, the dancers coming out in alternating moiety 

 sets. They dance in the plaza, on the cast and west sides, sometimes 

 for two daj's, sometimes for four. Men only. The headdress differs 

 from that of the pinitu or spruce dance, otherwise the dancers are 

 similarly arrayed, and spruce is fetched for them and received by 

 them as in the pinitu dance. Instead of the k'apyo there are the 

 Grandfathers who serve as watchers and who are the ones to give 

 permission to catch the turtles. The dancer's headdress is a plaque, 

 round or square, of colored cotton encircled by feathers, to which 



"J The leg rattle is made of sham, land turtle; in the pinitu dance i^ee p. 335) the rattle of the shure' is 

 land turtle, and the rattle of the Black Eyes, water turtle (bakorare). 



31 Seasonal vicissitudes and the time of planting (.see p. 321) have probably some bearing on the dale of this 

 dance and of the dance which follows it, liwa fgnide. 



