. Bulletin. Ethnology. Beals] CONTEMPORAKY CULTURE OF CAHITA INDIANS 131 The pascola dancers follow; between the third and fourth arch they start looking for a water hole. The youngest insists there is a water hole there. Finally they start digging and find a bottle of mescal previously buried there. The bottle has a string about the neck so that it can be carried like a water bottle. The pascola all take a drink, then they pretend to find blood traces, and follow them excitedly until they find the "; One pascola pretends to be a burro and gets on all fours. A handkerchief or cl
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Beals] CONTEMPORAKY CULTURE OF CAHITA INDIANS 131 The pascola dancers follow; between the third and fourth arch they start looking for a water hole. The youngest insists there is a water hole there. Finally they start digging and find a bottle of mescal previously buried there. The bottle has a string about the neck so that it can be carried like a water bottle. The pascola all take a drink, then they pretend to find blood traces, and follow them excitedly until they find the "; One pascola pretends to be a burro and gets on all fours. A handkerchief or cloth is knotted about his neck to lead him by and the deer is placed on his back. One of the other dancers leads the "burro," another beats him with a stick. At the fifth arch, the pascola exchange places. At the sixth arch, the oldest pascola takes his turn as the "burro" and carries the deer into the dance place, where it is laid down. After some obscene antics, the "deer" is then skinned, the pascola arguing about the proper way to. FiGUEE 23.—Typical arrangement for household fiesta, a, Altar table for saint. 6, Musicians, c, Dance place, d, Six arches of canes bent over and tied at the tops, e. House cross or special fiesta cross. do it. The hide is sold, again with argument, to the pakome (fies- teros). Should the latter insist on the skin's being cured, the blanket is dipped in water in the water drum and beaten by each dancer on the ramada posts, until "; The spectators are also struck with the wet blanket. If the spectators run they are pursued. When the condition of the "skin" is satisfactory, one of the dancers bends over and the "skin" is laid on his back and scraped with a length of cane. In return for the skin, the pascola also receive mescal. The deer hunt is the last performance of the fiesta. The image of the saint is now taken back to the church, and the pascola are fed after the maestros and si
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