Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . gment (napiewi),which is also smeared on the hair-part-ing.^^ A necklace of bear claws is worn,the claws fastened to a strip of bearfur, and the precious pQshkci or crystalfor second sight is pendent from theneck. There is a wristlet (kafi) of cow-hide set with arrow points or olivellashells. The two exorcising eagle feath-ers are carried in the left hand, a bearpaw is in the right. (Fig. ) To return to the ceremony, after cleaning up the food, theFathers takeposition in front of their altar
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . gment (napiewi),which is also smeared on the hair-part-ing.^^ A necklace of bear claws is worn,the claws fastened to a strip of bearfur, and the precious pQshkci or crystalfor second sight is pendent from theneck. There is a wristlet (kafi) of cow-hide set with arrow points or olivellashells. The two exorcising eagle feath-ers are carried in the left hand, a bearpaw is in the right. (Fig. ) To return to the ceremony, after cleaning up the food, theFathers takeposition in front of their altar (figs. 16,17); they dance; they circulate among the people, saying truhi! truhi!The chief assistant passes from the altar to the door, making brushingmotions mth his feathers. He is cleaning the road; and at the door hemakes the cutting or slicing and discarding motions with the assistants go aroimd the walls, one going in one direction, one inthe other, exorcising with their feathers. One goes to the fireplace inthe ceremonial room and one to the fireplace in the next room, where. PiGUEE 16.—Town Fattier Compare Laguna, Parsons 8: 119. Also a Tewa practice. 310 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [ETH. ANN. 47
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