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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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Fig. 9—Depositing prayer plumes at Kus^hilowa. they visit Kushilowa, just beyond the eastern side of the town,where they deposit their telikinawe. All the members of the Koti-kili (mythologic fraternity) visit Kushilowa sometime during theafternoon, each carrying his Korkokshi mask and eight telikinawe,of which four are planted to Kokko Awa (all the gods) and four toKoyemshi (see figure 9). Those who are absent from Zuni or areunable to go must have their masks and offerings carried by others. ^Yhile the personators of the molawe gather at Kushilowa, thechosen women (see note c, p. 277) congregate at the southeast point inthe village, each carrying on her back, held on by a blanket around herwaist, an offering of a watermelon and seeds to be made by a molawa(singular of molawe), each donation having been supplied from the aSeep. 407. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL L/XV
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PERSONATOR OF Bl SISI, ORIGINAL DIRECTOR OF NEWEKWE GALAXYFRATERNITY) CROSSING PLAZA STEVENSON) Bl^Sl^SI WITH THE MolAWE 279 house of tlic woman who carries it. When all is iti readiness, the manof the Aiyahokwe chui who has chosen them throws out a line ofmeal toward Kushilowa and commands the women to run. Oti theygo as rapidly as possible, each one trying to outrun the other. Onreaching Kushilowa the woukmi deposit the baskets containing theofferings in line on the ground, just where the Corn maidens aresupposed to have taken their jjlaces (see page 52). Bsisi, coming from the lieiwa kiwisine, descends the ladder,face forward, with the ease and grace of a Roman (see plate lxxvi),and disappears through the eastern covered way, followed by thepekwin (sun priest). The two return at sunset, accompanied byPautiwa (director-general of the gods), elaborately dressed in whiteeml)roidered blankets, wearing the mask, and carr3ing a gourd jug ofwater, the neck of the jug being tilled with gra

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