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ISLETA, NEW MEXICO 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



On the fourth morning about suni'ise each dance set, the full set, 

 comes out in tin-n, each set coming out three times before breakfast. 

 Then the spruce gatherers bid the dancers go each to his own house 

 for breakfast. After breakfast the dancers redress and begin to dance 

 again, perhaps twice more in the morning, thrice in the afternoon. 

 The dancers all wear a tablita or head tablet, that of the Black Eyes 

 painted red and black, that of the shure', red and yellow. The Black 

 Eyes wear black moccasins, and their bodies ai'e blackened. The 

 shure' wear red moccasins and are painted red. At dmner time the. 

 spruce gatherers mil set out in the plaza the food that may have been 

 contributed from any house, and if there are visitors from other 

 pueblos they wiU be invited to partake-. Before the final dance the 

 spruce gatherers mount a roof to call out 

 that the day following tliey will have a 

 himt, and the people are to prepare all the 

 good things to eat that they can — water- 

 melons, fried eggs, cheese, etc., all of which 

 is mentioned with gusto to raise a laugh. 

 From this announcement the people know 

 that the next dance will be the final 

 one. . . . The dancers go to the river to 

 wash. They retiu'n to their respective 

 kivas where their chief sets them free. 



The rabbit hmit the following day is 

 like that to be described in connection 

 with the pinitu dance, ^- except that no 

 hunt fire is built. The war chief and cap- 

 FiGUKt H'— nark kaihina taius Ere uot in charge; in charge are the 



Grandfathers and the spruce gatherers, 

 who at the close thank and dismiss the people. The hunters keep 

 their game for themselves, e.xcept what they have given to the women 

 who go horseback to this hunt. (The hunters go afoot ; the old people 

 and the children go in wagons, with two barrels of drinking water.) 

 Also one rabbit is reserved for the town chief, one for kunipa, and 

 one for the war chief. 



races; war ceremonial^-" 



About the middle of March or e>\v\y in April ^^ on three or four 

 Sundays there are races, t'aikabede nakwiawi, town chief races, 

 for the sun. "The town chief is going to clothe the sun and help him 



" See pp. 336-336. 



«« Compare Lummis I; 109-130; 2: 23.V242. 



" .\ceording to Lumuiis 1; 112, the series always begins on Easter Sunday afternoon. Lucinda .also 

 said that the series begins on Easter with a race by the little boys who are painted on their bacli with figures 

 in white of ehiciien hawk (takire) or rabbit or turtle. Hix boys stand at the southwest corner of the plaza 

 and six boys at the soutileast corner. -\n " old man " sprinkles water from a jar on the boys. 



