Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . iSfc:. I) IDOLS REMOVED FROM SHRINE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED CAVE SHRINE OF PAYATAMU btevenson] THANKSGIVING FOR CROPS 205 OWINAHAFYE, THANKSGIVING FESTIVAL FOR CROPS There is no fixed time for this ceremony. It depends upon theharvest and occurs after the gathering of the crops. While it is anannua] occurrence0 of the ApFl&shiwanni (Bow priesthood), otherstake part in it. The Ant fraternity necessarily does its share, owingto its relation with the Bow priesthood. The elder brother Bcw priest having decided
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . iSfc:. I) IDOLS REMOVED FROM SHRINE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED CAVE SHRINE OF PAYATAMU btevenson] THANKSGIVING FOR CROPS 205 OWINAHAFYE, THANKSGIVING FESTIVAL FOR CROPS There is no fixed time for this ceremony. It depends upon theharvest and occurs after the gathering of the crops. While it is anannua] occurrence0 of the ApFl&shiwanni (Bow priesthood), otherstake part in it. The Ant fraternity necessarily does its share, owingto its relation with the Bow priesthood. The elder brother Bcw priest having decided on the time for thefestival, requests a meeting of the first body of Ashiwanni with thepamosona (scalp custodian) and his deputy. On the morning afterthe notification the first body of Ashiwanni assemble in the houseof the Shiwanokia (Priestess of fecundity), and each makes acigarette as long as the distance from the metacarpus to the tip ofthe second finger. Each reed is filled with native tobacco, and eachshiwanni, having painted his cigarette the color of the region towhich he is assigne
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