318 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ass. 4? 



horizontally two eagle wing feathers are attached with corn husk and 

 red and green yarn. (Fig. 18.) 



In the evening in the public kiva patykwane is presented by the 



shichu chief. There are a drununer and three singers, and two men 



and two women dancers. These dancers have been practicing in the 



house of the shichu chief. The women wear the Hopi blanket, and 



in their hair is a white eagle feather. The men wear clothes of buck- 



sldn, their face is wliitened. They carry a 



gourd rattle and a crook cane to which 



eagle feathers are attached. The drum is 



whitened. Any woman present may join 



in the dancing, moving tlieir arms up and 



''i down, and stretching them in front. 



•( Halala this dancing is called, and it means 



Figure i,s.— Headdress in land- "they are helping them." After this dancc 



is finished for the evening, the two sets of 



Hwa dancers come in to dance in succession. 



In his house at this time the shichu chief keeps medicine water for 

 any one who wants it to drink. And any infant might be taken to 

 him to be given a name. Children thus named are those who in 

 later life he puts into his dance. . . . The morning after the dance 

 the shichu chief deposits prayer feathers out toward the west at 

 Nampeikotoa', where is the shrine of the stillborn. 



IRRIC;.\TION DITCH RITUAL AND DANCE 



The mayordomo tell the town chief they are going to start the 

 communal work on the 5-mile ditch. The town chief notifies the 

 moietj" chiefs, and he and they, kunipa, and the war chief begin 

 to fast; i. e., remain continent, the first day tlie work of three days 

 begins. On the fourth morning these five men go out to the end 

 of the ditch to perform ritual. This morning the crier has called 

 out to the people to run the water. The governor and the other 

 elective officers go to the river to pray, carrying a cross the sacristan 

 has had blessed by the padre. The cross is jilanted in the river bank. 

 The five Fathers are also praying by the river, to which they have 

 carried 12 prayer feathers to pay to the Water people for water to 

 run into the ditch for the year's crop. The feathers are thrown into 

 the river; also bits from the bundle of sample crops (tawenide) each 

 moiety chief carries. The mayordomo tell the men to run the water. 

 As all assemble, the town chief bids them give thanks for the coming 

 year and urges them all to behave well. The moiety chiefs, first as 

 usual, the Black Eyes, then the shure', repeat the same exhortations 

 and add that the men must tell their families to go to the river before 

 sunrise the morning following to sprinkle pollen and meal. (This 



