BUNZEiJ PRAYERS OF THE MEDICINE CULT 791 



?on i'finan-ila'EiEapa 



you having sat down quietly 



?o"na'wan Ra"kwine 



your living water 



ho'n fe'apEunan-e 



our cliild 



i''Ka'kima 



drinking in 



?e'luwaian Rai'akwi 



dawn lake to 



o'neal te"tcina 



road reaching 



a"'wona ya-"ana.;]| 



their roads will be fulfilled. 



The foregoing section is repeated for the six directions as above, 

 naming for each direction a stone of appropriate color, as follows: 

 a'laci h'ana 



Summoning a Shaman 



When anyone is sick and it is decided to call a Shaman to cure 

 him, the family decide whether or not they consider the case sufficiently 

 serious to warrant summoning one of the societies to come as an organ- 

 ization to perform its curing ritual. This is done only when they 

 believe death is threatened and it is felt that the fuU power of the 

 society is needed to save the patient's life. In such cases the patient 

 is given to the society, and the family undertakes to see that he is 

 initiated within a reasonable time. This is a last resort, since the 

 expense of initiation is very great. ■* 



In less serious cases a shaman is summoned to practice as an indi- 

 vidual. In such a case the shaman may ask assistance of some col- 

 league who owns an especially potent song or medicine, but the society 

 as a whole does not participate, nor is the patient initiated. However, 

 at the following New Year he goes to the house of the society with 

 which his doctor is affiliated and his head is washed at their altar. 



