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ISLETA, NEW MEXICO 



[ETH. ANN. -3 



FiGlRE 21.— K'apyo, Black Eyes. Carrying « 

 low sticks and smoking a com husk cigarette 



color as the body, is plastered down with the pigment and then brought 



up into a poke on top of the head and tied with yucca fiber. "^ These 



carry long blades of yucca, as whips 

 (see p. 2S7), and wear a bandoleer 

 with Cottonwood twigs and collar, 

 anulets and anklets of spruce. 

 (Fig. 22.) 

 The next morning the k'apyo 



"^^ jf^V \ come out and two by two visit the 



<v>s. /-«fe=K\ houses of their aunts (ky'iunin), 



aimts in blood, or if these are not 

 many, women of their father's Corn 

 group who have been appointed to 

 act as "aunts" by the group chief, 

 and instruct the women to prepare 

 meal for them, their tu'u (nephews) 

 and watermelons, chili, etc. The 

 women also make bread in theshape 

 of jack rabbits and turtles for their 

 nephew clowns to whom they will 

 also give silk banda and pottery 



bowls. While the women are making ready, in the plaza on the 



ground the k'apyo draw a "house " into 



which the head k'apyo takes one of the 



others and seats him, asking him if he wants 



to get married. "No." "Yes, you should 



get married. You are old enough." "All 



right. I will many." "You want to get 



married, but you can not work. WTiom 



wdll you marry?" Then the leader in this 



play names the oldest woman in town. He 



gives his victim a room in the "house," and 



tells him what to do when he lives there 



with his wife. All of this farce is repeateil 



for each k'apyo. Then the "aunts" arrive 



on the scene, bringing the food. They cany 



it into the "house," where the k'apyo eat. 



Each set of k'apyo have their "house" and 



each set eat. Then they invite visitors from 



other pueblos to come and eat. . . . Now 



the dancers come out to dance on the four 



sides of the plaza. The Black Eyes come first and start on the east 



side. When they move on to the north side, the shure' come in to 



Fiiii'RE 22.— K'apyo, shure'. 

 Smoking a corn husk cigarette 



6' These hair pokes are thought of as boms, see pp. 362, 363, 364, n. 53. 



