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PRAYERS OF THE WAR CULT 



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35 hon a''te'tcina 



i'skon hon a-'wantewa!ga 



te'wap hon a-'wa^a 



lak" to"olelaEanakwi hon a''fe'- 

 tcina 



i'sEon ti'nakwi 

 40 hon a''te'tcina 



i'sEon hon ya'nte'unaplfS. 



i'skon lu'kon i-wiyalto^fa 



35 We arrived. 



There we spent the night. 

 Next day we went on. 



Yonder at Cattail Spring we arrived. 

 There, when we arrived at their 



camp site, 

 We attacked them. 

 There this one, 

 (And one of the enemy) 

 Fought together 



(The account breaks off here. The informant lacked imagination 

 to continue the narrative of the exploits of the war party.) 



In the evening the scalp is brought into the village." At the close 

 of the ceremonies on the plain the scalp chief deposits in an excavation 

 between two mounds of bread which he collected earlier in the day at 

 the houses of the priests. The offering is specifically to the slain 

 Navaho. 



» See Twenty-third Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 581. 



» The priests, hence Zuni. 



" He offers bread cooked in the houses of the priests. 



'■ Cross their road while they encircle the village. 



IS i'yatonane, literally, an exchange, especially bad dreams or hallucinations— the usual means whereby 

 supernaturals punish the breaches of mortals— provided, always, jiroper precautions are not taken. 



" Wing feathers of the male turkey, which had Iain on the meal painting, are deposited in the hole with 

 the food. Turkey feathers are used on prayer sticks for the dead. 



M May more of the enemy be killed and brought in thus. 



