330 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [i:th. ann.47 



circle (paH makore). The k'apyo also place the hunters and the 

 women who are participating. Now the hunt chief calls out to every- 

 body to be careful, not to shoot anybody in the circle. Again the 

 hunt chief calls out; the hunters shout; the rabbits will start up from 

 everywhere, running blindly. 



All the rabbits got in the first drive will belong to the town chief; in 

 the second drive, to the hunt chief; in the third drive, to the chakabede, 

 kumpa and the war chief. On the followdng drives the women run 

 up, as usual the woman first to reach the trophy receiving it. 



The k'apyo are the first to return, in order to go to the river to 

 wash and dress. After the third drive the hunt chief returns. The 

 day following, the women who have received game pay their hunters 

 with a basket of wafer bread or tortillas and a bowl of stew. The 

 game taken by the k'apyo is given by them to their "aunts" in return 

 for the jack rabbits in bread their aunts gave tliem. 



The notched bone dance is a harvest thanksgiving — "for the end 

 of the crops, thanking for them." Also it is to brmg frost, to harden 

 the corn and grapes which are to be dried. Therefore all crops, such 

 as melons, which would be hurt by frost, must be gathered before 

 this dance. 



CEREMONY OF BRINGING IN SALT OLD WOMAN 



This ceremony of a single day and night is in charge of the town 

 chief together with the medicine societies, each chief appointing 

 three of his assistants to sing. The ceremony is performed every 

 three or five years, at the end of October. It is performed in the 

 Black Eyes roundhouse. 



At this time the ceremoniaUsts can turn people into any animals 

 they please, if they think a person has bad thoughts. Or they could 

 take from a man his moccasin and turn it into a piece of meat, giving 

 everybody a taste. So people are afraid to go to this ceremony. 

 Our informant was so vague about the ritual that he had evidently 

 never seen it, although he insisted that Salt woman was actually 

 brought in "with their power," a large figure "looking like ice." No 

 prayer feathers are used; they pay Salt old woman (Pahliu) with 

 beads and turquoise. "They clean her veins." 



CEREMONY OF HUNT CHIEF '''"^ 



The hunt chief holds his cereniony late in October after the harvest. 

 He asks the town chief for permission to hold it, and he asks for the 

 cooperation of the war cliief and the war captains. The hunt chief 

 is in retreat for four days, performing ceremonial at noon of the 

 fourth day. He blows smoke into his medicine bowl, and he smokes 



«• Compare Lummis 2: 209—218. 



