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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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t last he gave it up, and after his companions had departed hemade several circuits df the plaza alone, each time stamping on theplank before the kisi, and then marched oft. In an account of thetermination of the Shumopovi Snake dance of 1896, a similar failureof Snake men to obtain reptiles at the final melee is mentioned. It isa))purently not regarded an honor to depart from the kisi at the closeof the dance without a snake, and in both instances some merrimentwas expressed by the native spectators at the man who had left theplaza empty-handed. After the reptiles had been deposited in the fields the Snake menreturned to the pueblo, took the emetic, vomited (plate li), andpartook of the great feast with which the Snake dance in the Hopipuel)los always closes. SNAKE DANCE AT WALPI IN 1897 Several of the more important features of the Walpi Snake dancewere witnessed in 1897, and a few new facts were discovered regardingobscure parts of this variant. In the year named, the author sought
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FEWKEs) THE SNAKE-WASHING AT WALPI 977 etspecially to notice any innovations or variations from the presenta-tions in 1S91, 1S93, and 1895. which might result from deaths in theranks of the celebrants and the increase in the number of whitespectators. TIk kiva exhibitions were found to remain practically unchanged,and notes made in 1891 might serve equally well as a descriptionof the rite in 1897, although the participants had changed. The mor-tality among the Antelope priests since the dunce was first studied in1891 has been great, among those who died being Hahawe, Nasyun-weve. Masaiumtiwa. and Intiwa—practically all the older membersexcept Wiki. This has led in some instances to the introduction oflads to fill out the complement of numbers, and with them has comesome loss of seriousness in the kiva exercises. For an unknownreason Hoiiyi took the part of a Snake priest, and old Tcoshoniwu(Tcino), after several years of absence, resumed his role of aspergerof the kisi. With the dea

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