Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . • actual size. one reed being thicker than the rest. All contain larger one also contains in the water a diminutive toad (Bufo punc-tatus. figure 4), which seems to thrive in its restricted quarters. Theends of the reeds arc/closed with a blackish (day. said by the Ashiwannito have been brought from the undermost world, and native chuettone (the first syllable, chu, is from ehuwe, seeds) is com-posed of eight hollow reeds tilled with all the edible seeds known tothe Ashiwi (Zunis)
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . • actual size. one reed being thicker than the rest. All contain larger one also contains in the water a diminutive toad (Bufo punc-tatus. figure 4), which seems to thrive in its restricted quarters. Theends of the reeds arc/closed with a blackish (day. said by the Ashiwannito have been brought from the undermost world, and native chuettone (the first syllable, chu, is from ehuwe, seeds) is com-posed of eight hollow reeds tilled with all the edible seeds known tothe Ashiwi (Zunis) and (dosed at the ends with native cotton. Origi-nally the reeds contained only kiasanna, the only food then known tothe Ashiwi, Each group of reeds is wrapped with cord ! nati\e cotton, the end of the cordon the kiaettone being left free, to symbolizethe tail of a toad, which woidd indicate that the Ashiwi were aware ofthe evolution of the toad from the tadpole. A number of preciousheads are attached to the cord wrapping of the ettone. and a linearrow point rests on the to]).. «8eep. 26. Since the ashiwi learned the art oi makingInstead i e basket. 1(14 THE ZUNI INDIANS [ 23 The sacrednesa of the Sttone is indicated, not only by its promi-nence in Legend, but by the care with which it is guarded. Thewriter was fortunate in being able to handle and examine the ettoneof Naiuchi, since deceased, Shiwanni of the Nadir, who was alsoelder brother Bow priest. On removing the toad from the reedit was found to be in a lively condition. The writer is indebted toNaiuchi for models of the sacred fetish, which are in the NationalMuseum. When the Ashiwi were divided into clans these sacred objectsbecame associated with the clans chosen by their possessors, and whilean ettone may pass from a shiwanni of the parent clan to one of thechildren of the clan, it remains in the care of a woman of the parentclan, when not in the hands of the shiwanni, this office passing frommother to da
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