690 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ETH. Ann. 24 
appointed time. Those from the Héiwa (north), Hétkapawa (nadir), and Chi- 
pawa (south) kiwitsiwe represent the side of the elder God of War, while those 
from the Mtihe‘wa (west), Ohe‘wa (east), and Uptsiiniwa (zenith) kiwitsiwe 
represent the side of the younger God of War. After an early breakfast (the 
runners having exercised before the meal) nothing more is eaten during the 
day but crushed héwe (wafer-like bread) in water, 
In the afternoon the first body of Ah’shiwanni 4 (the elder brother Bow-priest 
being also Rain-priest of the nadir) proceed about a mile south of the village, 
over the road leading to the present home of the Gods of War, and here the elder 
brother Bow-priest lays upon the ground a laéshowané (one or more plumes tied 
together), composed of two upper wing-feathers of a bird called shétkapiso,? 
and the younger brother Bow-priest places a similar lashowané on the ground 
and west of the other, the distance between the two laéshowané being the 
length of the extended arms from finger tip to finger tip. The Ah’shiwanni 
group west and the Ah’pi‘tliishiwanni east of the plumes ; the elder brother Bow- 
Fig. 911. Kicking billets of the Bow-priests (the plumes are attached only when the tikwawe 
are made as offerings to the Gods of War); Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; from Mrs Ste- 
venson. 
priest standing with his fellows of the Ah’pi‘‘liishiwanni, a line is made south 
ef the plumes by drawing, or rather pushing, the foot over the earth from west 
to east. 
Six members of the Ah’pi‘tliishiwanni selected by the elder brother Bow- 
priest have each a tikwané (figure 911), made by himself. Three of the tik- 
wawe are colored black at either end and midway, indicating the sticks of the 
elder God of War; and three are painted black midway only for those of the 
younger God of War. 
The six warriors, clad only in breechcloths, stand by the line, the one at the 
east end having the tikwané of the elder God of War, the man at the right 
having that of the younger God of War, and so they alternate down the line. 
@\Mrg Stevenson designates the Ah’shiwanni of the six regions, whose prototypes are 
the members of the Council of the Gods, as the first body of Ah’shiwanni. There are a 
number of other Ah’shiwanni in Zuni. 
>A bird, as the Zuni say, which flies but never tires. Mrs Stevenson failed to obtain. 
a specimen, but she is almost sure it is a species of hawk. 
