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Lake,’’ Tay jay po une, a ceremony takes place in the Pueblo, which 
may be called the ** Ducking of the Clowns." This observance is 
known to the Zufiians as the Dumächimche, from the words of the 
song by the Ko yea mashi, or mudhead clowns, on whom, in the 
course of the celebration, water is poured from the housetops by the 
squaws. This song has internal evidence of antiquity, and I am told 
by the Indians that both song and ceremony is very ancient. Al- 
though a musical critic might not find in it great beauty, as an 
undoubted specimen of ancient aboriginal music it is very interesting. 
I shall commént on the meaning of the Dumächimche in another place, 
when the ceremony will be described at length. 
A survival of the old practice of communal hunting still exists in 
some of the Pueblos in the so-called rabbit hunt. Several of these 
hunts have taken place during my residence in Zufíi, It has seemed to 
me that it is a semi-religious observance connected with summer 
dances, and I have therefore taken records of the song and prayer 
used by the hunters for future study. 
While my observations have been particularly directed to the lin- 
guistic features of the solstitial dances in summer, I have not wholly 
neglected the great wealth of other material all about me for linguistic 
study by means of the phonograph. 
The well-known celebration called the Sha’ la "ko, at which the Zufii 
house is consecrated, is the occasion of an elaborate ceremonial, in 
which figures a song or chant and a prayer, said to be very ancient. 
I have never witnessed the celebration of the Sha’ la 'ko, but have 
been able to obtain the chant and prayer from one of the natives. 
This capture had to be made secretly, unknown to the other Indians. 
It was found necessary to take it late at night, in a room darkened 
with blankets at the windows to prevent suspicion, and sentinels sta- 
tioned about the house to warn us of the approach of intruders. On 
Sa’ hla 'ko on the phonograph. It is now, however, permanently 
recorded in the wax, and can be reproduced at pleasure, or what is 
of more importance to philological study, can be written out and 
studied at leisure under better conditions. I am told that it is next 
to impossible to get any of the Zufiians to sing the Sha’ la "ko out of 
season, and as the celebration regularly comes in November, a record 
of it in July is a fortunate acquisition. Certain of their winter songs 
they will’not sing in summer, because to do it prevents the qua 
from growing. I do not know whether or not the chant of the 
Sha' la 'ko is one of these. 
