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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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)crsonator of a Shalako and his alternate deposit telikinawein the same excavation in which the Council of the Gods planted ofler-ings. This opening is filled in by the Shaliiko worwe, who proceedto the cabin a little farther off where tlie effigies are taken apart andthe masks and paraphernalia are brought to the village by them undera covering of blankets. This elaborate ceremonial is to bring rains to fructify the earth.The rapid ruiming from one excavation to another is a dramatiza-tion of the services performed bj the Shalako, the couriers of theAshiwanni uwannami (priest rain-makers) of the six regions, who,when wishing to communicate with one another, employ couriers forthe piirpose. The Ashiwanni uwannami of the North, wishing tosend rains upon some particular land, communicate with their 3ounger
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STEVENSON) MORNING CEREMONIES OF THE SHalAKO 2()1 brothers, tho Ashiwiinni nwaniiaini of the East; and the Asliiwamiiiiwaiinami of tlie West send their eourier to their ^oungei- brothers,the Ashiwanni uwannami of the Nadir; and so also the Ashiwanniuwaiiiuuni of the South dispatches their eourier to the Ashiwanniuwannami of the Zenith. Any one of these eouriers may also be sentto any other or all of the regions when it is desired that the rain-makersof all the regions should lend their aid in watering the earth. Theprayers of the personators of the Council of the Gods and Shalilko atthis season are for rains from all quarters, that the rivers may be greatand come dashing through the canyons; that the streams ma) swell likerivers, flooding the water courses; and that the lakes ma) grow lai-geand the wells be filled to overflowing, so that the earth may give tothem the fullness of her being. These prayers are accentuated by thedi-ama on the ceremonial ground. The last participants in th

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