Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . UHUHUKWE 527 regions with prayers for snow, when it is again passed and the hallsare found to be as hard as stones. A third time the basket is passed,after prayers have been offered, and the balls are in the same conditionas when first examined. The Uhuhukwe and Halokwe (Ant) areconsidered the most expert jugglers in Zufii. On the closing evening an aged member with white hair appearswith a flaming brand at the house of one of the women of the fra-ternity who is tardy, and entering without ceremony st
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . UHUHUKWE 527 regions with prayers for snow, when it is again passed and the hallsare found to be as hard as stones. A third time the basket is passed,after prayers have been offered, and the balls are in the same conditionas when first examined. The Uhuhukwe and Halokwe (Ant) areconsidered the most expert jugglers in Zufii. On the closing evening an aged member with white hair appearswith a flaming brand at the house of one of the women of the fra-ternity who is tardy, and entering without ceremony starts her outbefore his flaming brand. Though this woman is hourly expecting tobecome a mother, she is allowed no freedom of action: she must notomit her duty to the fraternity. CEREMONIAL OVER A SICK MAN In connection with this fraternity the writer witnessed a ceremonialover a sick man at his house. The patient was suffering from small-pox. Many theurgists had been called in, but none had effected acure; accordingly the Kiakwemosi, who is also a theurgist of theUhuhuhwe, was appealed to.
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