Zuñi fetiches; . endly to them, rather inthe sense of an animal whose food temporarily satisfies him than in thobeneficent character of most of the gods of Zuiii. Both the Great White Bear and the Mountain Lion of the War Priest-hood are, as well as the Knife-feathered Demon, beings of tho this reason the fetich of the ]\I()Uiit:iin Lion of the skies (of aiago-nite) is preferred by a Priestof the Bow above all other kinds or , none of the fetiches of this priesthood aro to bo foundin the collections of the Bureau, and but one, with its i)Ouch, has beenreproduced f


Zuñi fetiches; . endly to them, rather inthe sense of an animal whose food temporarily satisfies him than in thobeneficent character of most of the gods of Zuiii. Both the Great White Bear and the Mountain Lion of the War Priest-hood are, as well as the Knife-feathered Demon, beings of tho this reason the fetich of the ]\I()Uiit:iin Lion of the skies (of aiago-nite) is preferred by a Priestof the Bow above all other kinds or , none of the fetiches of this priesthood aro to bo foundin the collections of the Bureau, and but one, with its i)Ouch, has beenreproduced from the original, which is in my possession. It was notpresented to me with my other paraphernalia on the night of tho finalceremonials of my initiation into the Priesthood of the Bow, but somemonths alterward when I was about to start on a dangerous this time I was charged with carefully preserving it during life as my special fetich, and instructed in the various usages connected with4n . 4i • . r. _Hn Ju «-!? I•;I:i ,? -if. • ? u:.• J,- BUREAU OF ETHHOLOGY A! REPOm 1881 PI X!


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