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harden so that he could get only what he needed. The place is called 

 paripeai, red paint in the water. 



PLANTING RITUAL 



Seed grain is taken by people to the town chief who with kumpa 

 and the shichri kabede performs ceremonial, any specific account 

 of which T was unable to get froin my informant. Merely that the 

 town chief placed the seed on a buckskin, sprinkling it with medicine 

 water; that the exorcising stone point was used, and songs were sung — 

 a simple ritual. 



LIWA FIj'nIDE (dark), DARK KACHINA 



Tliis is danced in February-March after the Hwa dance, to have 

 a good spring for the crops. There is a 4-day retreat by the dancers 

 in the moiety kivas when they prepare what they need. During 

 these four days people maj' not go to the ash piles. Daily, early in 

 the morning, about 3 o'clock, the moiety chiefs go out to the fom' 

 comers of the plaza, and call out, probably to Hwa fy'nide. (But 

 they do not bring him into town as liwale is brought in.) '* During 

 this time one or two young men go on horseback for spruce, to White 

 Eagle Mountain where the Hwa fyni live. The man who "has 

 wanted the dance" ^ and who, after getting permission from the 

 to\\Ti chief, \\"ill be the head man, sends forth the spruce gatherers. 

 In case of hurry the medicine men will be asked to get the spruce, 

 for they have only to send out an assistant and, performing ritual, 

 to have him reach the mountain and return in half an hour. As he 

 starts they sing a song and by the time they have sung a second 

 song he is back. He has flown by their power. For such service 

 in getting spiuce the medicine men will be paid a hair belt oi' a pair 

 of garters, a bundle of cotton, and a bundle of tobacco. 



The Grandfathere (te'en) come out. On the first day they go about 

 town, lowering the house ladders. On the second day the Grand- 

 fathers call out to the women to sweep their yards; and to the young 

 men each to bring two or three sticks of wood to their respective 

 Idvas. On the third day the dancers, led by the moiety chiefs and 

 their assistants, go out to meet the youths returning with spruce, 

 who have to ford the river, using neither bridge nor boat. 



On the town side, dry clothes are at hand for the spruce gatherers, 

 and a fire. They dance and sing, teasing songs. Anybody in town 

 may be referred to. The Black Eye boys mil tease shure' people; 

 the shure', Black Eye people. Gossip of any land serves. For 

 example, a boy courting a girl had ofiered her land which she would 



M See p. 332. 



*" Compare Parsons, l.**: 6.i, 71. Possibly, as among the Ilopi, "the man who wants the dance" has 

 had sickness in liis family. 



