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place. (PI. 19, b.) There is no dance place in Orai'bi, and, as 

 stated, the Lagiina colonists have no kiva. To the house of the 

 Laguna Fathers during the night practice Isletan women will take 

 their fruits, melons, peaches, grapes, etc., to be sprinkled with medicine 

 water. 



Besides their mask dances the Laguna colonists present the Bangs' 

 Daj' dance, the Santo Key dance, or, in hybrid Isletan-Spanish, 

 nareipoa, of which the account has already been given in the calen- 

 drical series of ceremonies; but which may now be reread the better 

 to appreciate the remarkable assimilation shown in this performance 

 between the host and the immigrant groups. Danced by moiety in 

 old Laguna as it is in the other Keresan towns, this tabUta or fiesta 

 dance is now danced by the colonists according to their Isletan moiety 

 classification. The dancers use the Isletan moiety kivas and perform 

 in Isleta; but their ritual (such as prayer-feather making, I presume) 

 and their ritualistic dance paraphernalia they keep to themselves. . . . 

 Before the Laguna people had brought this "Santo Rey happiness" to 

 Isleta, the Isletans went to Sandia on Kings' Day. 



To the medicine or curing organization of Isleta the Laguna immi- 

 grants have contributed perhaps most distinctivel}^. We recall that 

 there are now in Isleta two curing groups, the Town Fathers (toeka'an) 

 and the Laguna Fathers (birka'an), the chief of each referred to 

 respectively as tutude (older sister) and bachude (younger sister). In 

 the latter group there are now no persons of Lagima descent, neverthe- 

 less the name points to a Laguna origin, as well as certain other facts. 

 The predecessor of the present chief of the Laguna Fathers was named 

 Usaa, which is a Laguna word for Sunrise. ^^ (Usaa died in 1924.) 

 Usaa got his Laguna name when he took office because he was 

 installed by the Laguna town chief Kaituri. There happened to be 

 no trained successor to the office in the society. In the memory of 

 my informant there were three Laguna medicine men in the society, 

 Kaituri or Francisco Correo (Lists I, 3; II, 1), Juan Rey Churina or 

 Sheride (Lists I, 1; II, 13), and Casildo Velho (old man) or lunai 

 (Lists I, 2; II, 7), aU deceased. Kaituri we have noted as the some- 

 time town chief and "kachina father" of the Laguna colony. At old 

 Laguna he was called Kaij^e'kye and described as a Fire cheani. Juan 

 Rey was a stick swallower and he maintained that Keresan ritual at 

 Isleta, using the room of the Laguna Fathers for his ceremony which 

 only the Laguna colonists attended and which was thought of as their 

 peculiar medicine ceremony. At old Laguna, Juan Rey was called 

 Reishu" and was described to me as a Flint cheani, to Doctor White 

 as a shahaiye cheani. Juan Rey, who was headstrong even in old 

 Laguna, used to fight with Pablo Abeita. Because of this hostility, 

 in 1923 Rey decided to leave Isleta and go to Sandia to live. 



