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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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hich they placed all theirbundles. One of their number then piled the cones, one on top ofanother, and while he was doing this the drummer rapidly beat hisdrum, while the others shook their rattles and sung vigorously. Whenthe cones had been set up one of the men sought out a girl and broughther to them and told her if she would take hold of the lowest cone withboth hands, raise the pile, and set it back in place without letting anyof the cones fall she should have all the wealth piled on the blanket.But theleast jar tumbled the cones down, and each one of the half dozenor more girls to whom they made the same offer failed in turn. Thenthey invited the youths to try, and several essayed, but none were ableto perform the feat. So the prize, doubtless designedly, was left in theoriginal owners hands. They then brought a blanket full of hoyiani • The performances with the clowns were not unlike others in which they appear. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. PL. CVII. m<^i
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A, HOEN a CO.. LITH. DOLL OF CALAKO MANA. FEWKEs) THE POWAMU CEREMONY 279 ami placed the couos in two piles, but even then none of the girls suc-ceeded in carrying it. No one was allowed a second trial. Finallyone youth, Macakwaptiwa, carried them around safely and won theprize. He was closely followed around the pillar by the Tatciikti shak-ing their rattles, singing and crying, Dont fall, dont fall, and whenhe laid them safely down in their original place all the Tatciikti felldown as if dead. Intiwa then ran and obtained ashes from a cookingpit and placed them on a private part of their bodies. Then all theclowns got up and danced around with their usual pranks. A tray full of corn and other seeds which was set beside the coneswas obtained by the Tatciikti from Nakwaiyumsi, the chief priestess ofthe Katcina clan. At the close of the ceremony Tntiwa distributedthese seeds in small handfuls to all the women spectators, to be plantedthe coming season. It was not learned that these see

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