CALENDAR 



335 



the east side. The Black Eyes dancers are led in by the chaka- 

 bede; the shiire', by his assistant. They dance all day, making 

 antisunwise circuits in the plaza. After the last performance they 

 are sprinkled wdth meal by the chakabede and his assistant; and 

 on returning to their respective kivas they are meal besprinkled by 

 the moiety chief, and given medicine water to drink. 



The dancers wear a dance kilt with white cotton belt and spruce 

 pendants; spruce collar and spruce in leg bands and in armlets of 

 turquoise painted leather; skunk fur heel bands; spruce in left 

 hand. In right hand the Black Eyes carry a black gourd rattle; the 

 shure', a red rattle. Under the right knee is a turtle rattle — a water 

 turtle for the Black Eyes, a land turtle for the shure'. Of the head- 

 dress the visor is of woven yucca; the 

 tablita of the Black Eyes is dark blue 

 and red with black eagle feathers; the 

 tablita of the shure', blue and yellow with 

 wliite eagle feathers. The hair is flowing. 

 (Fig. 23.) 



Before the finish of the last dance the 

 k'apyo withdraw to their respective kivas, 

 carrying their food surplus. The moiety 

 chief gives them permission to go to the 

 river to wash off their paint. After 

 sprinkling meal into the water, they wash 

 and dress. They return to the kiva to 

 get permission to carry their food pile to 

 their own houses. Thence the chakabede 

 and his assistant summon them back to 

 the kiva to send them forth to call to the 

 people to prepare their lunch for a hunt 

 the day foUowing. The k'apyo return to 

 the kivas to stay there all night. They 

 dress up and at sunrise they sally forth to dance on the roof tops 

 on the four sides of the plaza. (In using the kiva ladder the k'apyo 

 has to step on its terraced top, the cloud terrace design.) As soon 

 as the people see them, they get ready to set out on the hunt.**" 



The head k'apyo has gone to the hunt chief the night before to ask 

 him to work. So at sunrise a little distance from town the hunt 

 chief will be making a little fire of which the smoke is to blind the 

 rabbits and keep them from running far. The hunt chief has got his 

 fire stick (w'ikon) or brand from the house of the towii chief. "When 

 we see the smoke we start." 



The people gather 5 or 6 miles to the west near Nampekoto."** The 

 k'apyo call out to them not to drive their wagons inside the hunt 



Fic.URE 23.— Piiiitu lia 



«•■ See Jcroez. Piireons 16: 94. for the hunt as directed by the clown society. 

 «■ See pp. 30(), 301, 318, 430. 



