356 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



There was much perturbation in Isleta. Rey had sent on to Sandia 

 ahead of him the box containing his swallowing sticks, together with 

 the canes of office of the governor and officers of the Laguna colony. 

 A woman told somebody about Rey's action, and somebody told the 

 governor of Isleta who told the town chief of the Laguna colony. 

 "They had a meeting about it. They would not let Rey go to 

 Sandia imtil they got back his box. They sent some men for it. 

 Then Rey went to Sandia. After a year he died.^* He did not last 

 long because he broke his promise to do his ceremony at Isleta." . . . 

 Juan Rey was the designer of the pantheon represented on the walls 

 of the chamber of the Laguna Fathers, of Sun, Moon, Orion's belt, 

 Rainbow, Lightning, Moxmtain Lion, Bear, Rattlesnake, Eagle, 

 Badger (?), Corn of the directions, and the anthropomorphic figures 

 called ka'an piaunin, who are the spirit patrons of the society. 

 (PI. 17.) Juan Rey was also an Ant doctor and he had passed 

 on his curing ritual to a younger member of the Laguna Fathers, an 

 Isletan. Juan Rey's wife, who died about 1921, was the daughter of 

 Jose, the shahaiye or shiwanna cheani of old Laguna. His daughter 

 was also a shahaiye cheani and would go to old Laguna to help her 

 father. And her father frequently visited her in Isleta. Jose, in the 

 account he gave me in 1917 of the Laguna immigi'ation, mentions 

 Rey (Lei), although, characteristically, he did not refer to him as his 

 son-in-law. I infer that Rey was a shahaiye cheani ^^ (Ant and Giant 

 subdivisions"). The shahaiye were stick swallowers. Besides sha- 

 haiye, said Jose, Fire (hakani) and Flint (hish) cheani had gone to 

 Isleta.'* 



Pedro Martin' (Felipe) of Isleta and Laguna, whose Laguna father 

 was a Fire cheani in the Laguna Fathers and who was himself a some- 

 time member of the Laguna Fathers as a Fire cheani, stated to me 

 that there was in the Laguna colony a shguyu (giant) cheani.^' 

 Probably this was Rey. Now at Laguna the Giant cheani had the 

 right to make kachina masks. If Rey was the Giant cheani, inferably 

 it was Rey who made the masks at the Laguna colony. At old 

 Laguna Casildo was said to be the chief of the Fire society. At Isleta 

 it was stated definitely that Casildo was possessed of fire ritual which 

 he taught to a younger member of the society, Juan Chato, who now 

 builds the fire ritualistically in any ceremonial room at the reciuest 

 of the town chief or war chief. Juan Chato can handle fire and stand 

 on coals without being burned. All such fire making and testing is, 

 we niay infer, of Laguna introduction. 



3< His daughter returned to Isleta to claim his house and land, but the Isletan governor had already 

 "handed' ' it to an Isletan. 

 S' An inference since confl:med by Doctor White. (See p. 348, n. 13.) 

 a» Parsons 8: 109. 

 »' Parsons 7: 59. 



