BUNZEL] RELIGIOUS LIFE 483 



loin cloth which constitutes their ceremonial costume, officers of the 

 Katciua society the white embroidered Idlt and embroidered blanket 

 of the katcinas and, possibly, masks.'" Priests, curiously enough, are 

 adorned for burial with the face paint and headdress of warriors." 



Infants were formerlj' biu'ied witliui the houses, as was conmion in 

 almost aU prehistoric \allages; because "they thought they woidd 

 have no place to go," and so they "wanted them around the house." 

 Most people admitted that there was some doubt whether the imini- 

 tiated, for example women, are admitted to Kohiwala"wa, although 

 folk tales frequentlj^ allude to then- gomg there to join their husbands. 



The role of the dead in the religious life is described below (p. 509). 

 At this point it need only be said that they are the bestowers of all 

 blessings, and are identified especially ^\ath rain. If rain falls the 

 fourth day following the death of a noted man it is usually thought 

 of as his rain, and is a source of consolation to the bereaved. The 

 worship of the dead is the foimdation of all Zuiii ritual. The dead 

 form part of the great spiritual essence of the universe, but they are 

 the part which is nearest and most intimate. 



THE EXTERNAL WORLD 



To the Zuiii the whole world appears anunate. Not only are night 

 and day, wind, clouds, and trees possessed of personality, but even 

 articles of hmnan manufactm-e, such as houses, pots, and clotliing, are 

 aUve and sentient. All matter has its inseparable spiritual essence. 

 For the most part this spiritual aspect of things is vague and imper- 

 sonal. Although all objects are called ho'i, "hving person," in a 

 figurative sense, they are not definitely antliropomorphic ; they have 

 consciousness but they do not possess hmnan facidties. To aU these 

 beings is appfied the term gapin ho'i "raw person"; man, on the 

 other hand, is a "cooked" person. 



Prayers are fidl of description of natm-al phenomena in anthropo- 

 morphic guise. I quote some of the most striking: 



When our sun father 



Goes in to sit down at his ancient place, 



And our niglit fathers, 



Our mothers, 



Niglit priests, 



Raise their dark curtain over their ancient place 



That our earth mother may wrap herself 



In a fourfold robe of white meal; 



That she may be covered witli frost flowers; 



That yonder on all the mossy mountains, 



The forests may huddle together with the cold; 



10 Hodge is the authority for this statement. 



" Stevenson describes, pp. iilS-317, the burial of Naiuchi, priest of the Bow and also head of Eagle clan 

 priesthood. However, the Onawa priesthood u.se the same face paint and headdress in interring their dead. 



