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ZUNI RITUAL POETRY 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



50 Our young ones 



The plume wands of their fathers, 



Priests of the masked gods 



They will fashion into human form. 



When to our fathers, 

 55 Priests of the masked gods, 



We have given these plume wands, 



Then making their days, 



Keeping their sacred days, 



We shall pass our days. 

 60 And so, our fathers, 



Your long life, 



Your old age, 



Your power, 



Your strong spirit, 

 65 You will give to us, 



So that we may be people blessed 

 in all things. 



Yonder toward the place of dawn 



We shall give our fathers praj'er 

 meal. 

 70 Anxiously waiting we shall pass our 

 days. 



When all their days are at an end 



With our clear water 



We shall bind our children fast, 



So that their roads may reach to 

 dawn lake 

 75 So that our young ones' roads may 

 be fulfilled. 



50 yam Ee'apEuna'we 



yam a-'tatcu 



koEwa''ciwan'i 



a"wan te'liljina ton a''ho'-a''}-p/- 

 Eana'wa 



yam a"'tatcu 

 55 koEwa-'ciwani 



hon te'li^inan a"'leara 



a' 'wan le'wanan a'cana 



a' 'wan te'wanan i'lapa 



hon te'wanan a-'tekan'a 

 60 ?en ho"na-wan a-'tatcu 



yam ©'naya^'nalja 



yam la'cialfa 



yam sa'wanika 



yam tse"makwin Isu'me 

 65 ho"na ya'nhaitena"wapa 



a'lfii kwahoJ te'mla hon a'niktcia 

 a''ho'a''telfan-a 



li'wan te'luwankwin ta"na 



yam a''tatcu 



ha'lawo-'tinan hon a-'wan hai'tena 

 70 antsume'na hon fe'wanan a''tek'- 

 an'a. 



a"'wan te'wanan i''te'tcapa 



yam tca'we 



yam Ea'cima Ea'kci hon a''wiya- 

 leria feu'meEana'wapa 



a'ka te'luwaian Eai'akwi o'neala 

 te"tcina 

 75 ho"na'wan te'apEuna'we 



ton a''wona-ya'"an'a. 

 Prayer of the Impersonator of Pa'utiwa 



Pautiwa is the katcina chief at Katcina village. It is he who 

 determines the order of masked rituals and dances, and sends forth 

 masked beings to dance for his dayhght children at Zuiii. The great 

 masked ceremonies are held expressly bj^ his order. They can only 

 be held when he commands them at the new year. In folklore he 

 appears frequently in the role of the divine lover of mortal maidens. 



He appears three times annually at Zuni — twice during the winter 

 solstice, and at the mola'wia which closes the great masked festival of 

 the late fall. He comes, therefore, at the beginning and end of the 

 year. He is one of the most beautiful of all Zuni impersonations. 

 The mask is turquoise blue, elaborately adorned -with the most 

 precious feathers, in particular the priceless tail feathers of the 

 macaw. He is fully clothed in rich clothing, including four embroid- 

 ered white cotton blankets and innumerable strings of the finest 

 turquoise. His gait is slow and stately. He always goes sprinkling 

 corn meal before him. It is altogether an impersonation of the 

 greatest splendor and solemnity.^ 



' See pi r, and Twenty-third Ann. Kept, Bur. Ainer. Ethn., pi. x.xviii. 



