Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . es of corn husks, each about 3£ inches longand 2 inches wide. Twelve songs are sung, there being a few momentsintermission between each song. The director of the song sits at theeast end of the group. Some move the right hand and some both handsin time with the song, which is at no time very loud. Rattles are notused until the beginning of the dance. The singing of the twelvesongs requires a little over two hours, each stanza averaging twominutes. At the close of each song a prayer is repeated aloud b
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . es of corn husks, each about 3£ inches longand 2 inches wide. Twelve songs are sung, there being a few momentsintermission between each song. The director of the song sits at theeast end of the group. Some move the right hand and some both handsin time with the song, which is at no time very loud. Rattles are notused until the beginning of the dance. The singing of the twelvesongs requires a little over two hours, each stanza averaging twominutes. At the close of each song a prayer is repeated aloud by all,and the sacred breath of Awonawilona is inhaled. There are manymembers of the kiwisine present, who take no actual part in theceremonies, they being privileged to come to their own kiwisine;in fact they assist the personators of the Kianakwe in various their own request and for protection against bad dreams, two arewhipped with yucca across each arm and ankle by a warrior of theKianakwe. i Sit Classiiicati >f higher [lowers. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANf-. DANCE OF THE KIANAKWE 22] A bunch of deer scapulae and thirty-five tortoise-shell rattles lie in agroup on the floor near the two basket trays, and several packages ofplumes, etc., wrapped in old cloths, are on the ledge near the hours before midnight the pries! empties the contents of onebasket tray into the other, prays, and. placing his mouth very close totlic food, puffs smoke over it from his cigarette of native he prays aloud, the singing drowns his voice. prayerof five minutes he divides the food into three parts, returns it to thesoiled cloths in which it was brought, hands a package to each of thechilds of the warrior gods and one to his deputy, and afterward one ofthe corn-husk packages to each. The three wrap their blankets aroundthem, go to tlie river, and deposit in the water the contents of theirpackages as food for the departed Kianakwe. These
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