20 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
order, thus enabling them to revive the fraternity at San 
Ildefonso. The Galaxy and Turquoise fraternities meet 
in the Turquoise kiva. The members of the former or- 
ganization have a fraternity chamber adjoining this kiva, 
and at the great Buffalo festival its members fr equent the 
chamber as well as the kiva. 
Hach fraternity at San Ildefonso has a tablet aitar, 
which is erected on the western side of the kiva, while 
the participants in the ceremonies sit facing eastward. 
These people have interesting animal fetishes and many 
human images of stone representing their anthropic gods. 
They appeal to their zooic deities to heal diseases inflicted 
by sorcery, and all ceremonies connected with these sup- 
plications are dramatic in character. Anthropic gods, 
principally ancestral, are invoked for rain and the fruc- 
tification of the earth. The present priest of the Sun 
people is director of the Summer Bear fraternity, and 
he is also the keeper of the calendar. He must observe 
the daily rising and setting of the sun and must watch the 
rising and setting of the moon. Elaborate solstice cere- 
monies are performed. Those for the summer solstice are 
held in the kiva of the Sun people. The Ice people join 
the Sun people in the summer ceremonies, and the Sun 
people join the Ice people in the ceremonies of winter. 
In each kiva the two rain priests sit side by side, the 
priest of the Ice people always at the right of the priest 
of the Sun people, while officers associated with each 
priest sit in line with him. The prayers of.the priest of 
the Sun people are for the purpose of bringing rain, and 
in order that they may be answered he must live an exem- 
plary life. The same beliefs control the functions of the 
priest of the Ice people, who, through the ceremonies 
which he directs, is expected to induce cold rains and 
snow that the earth may not become hot and destroy the 
vegetation. All male children are initiated, either volun- 
tarily or involuntarily, into the kiva of the Sun or of the 
Ice people. When a husband and his wife belong to dif- 
ferent sides, the kiva to which the child shall belong is 
