Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ceremonial, these shrines, beginning with Tewankohan onan panina and Shiakia, are taken in rotation, the idol of a () from owe, flour (wheat or corn); pompia, hanging. Two girls from Shuntekfaya were gath-ering grasses to make baskets to hold prayer plumes, when they met the elder God of War. He invitedthem to his house on the mountain top. Here they saw a diminutive sack of flour hanging from atree, and great was their surprise when they observed the grandmother of the gods make bread fromthe Hour in
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ceremonial, these shrines, beginning with Tewankohan onan panina and Shiakia, are taken in rotation, the idol of a () from owe, flour (wheat or corn); pompia, hanging. Two girls from Shuntekfaya were gath-ering grasses to make baskets to hold prayer plumes, when they met the elder God of War. He invitedthem to his house on the mountain top. Here they saw a diminutive sack of flour hanging from atree, and great was their surprise when they observed the grandmother of the gods make bread fromthe Hour in the sack. Although the woman took but the smallest quantity of the flour, she made agreat basket of bread from it. 6 So named because the face and head of Koloowisi (Plumed Serpent) were seen above the watersat this point by the Ashiwi, who were on Towa yallanne to escape the great flood. Hie Gods of War killed many mountain sheep on this monntain, and the grandmother, in sweep-ing the wool of the sheep from the house, swept it down the mountain side until it was quite coveredwith
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