. Bulletin. Ethnology. CHNSMOKE] YUMAN AND YAQUI MUSIC 75 attached to the board (Fig. 5.) This much of the work of pre- paring the image is done before the time of the ceremony. The Human Being dance, ending four days before the Karok, is so timed that the Karok will begin on the day when the moon rises as the sun sets. As the Karok lasts four days, this will give the light of the full moon for the dance and ceremony of the final day. Thus if the Human Being dance ends on Monday, the Karok begins on Thursday, terminating on Sunday night, the ceremony including the dawn of Monday. With this seq
. Bulletin. Ethnology. CHNSMOKE] YUMAN AND YAQUI MUSIC 75 attached to the board (Fig. 5.) This much of the work of pre- paring the image is done before the time of the ceremony. The Human Being dance, ending four days before the Karok, is so timed that the Karok will begin on the day when the moon rises as the sun sets. As the Karok lasts four days, this will give the light of the full moon for the dance and ceremony of the final day. Thus if the Human Being dance ends on Monday, the Karok begins on Thursday, terminating on Sunday night, the ceremony including the dawn of Monday. With this sequence of days the rela- tives of the persons to be honored w^ould gather on Wednesday and the shack for the lamentations would be built on Thursday. This shack was made of green willows and under it the crying would continue for four days and nights. The entire company would have gathered by Fri- day night or early Saturday morning. The event of Saturday was the building of the shack where the ceremony would be held. This was made of very dry arrow weed and dry poles. There was a prescribed manner for gathering this material. The persons going to secure it W'Cnt together for a certain distance, then separated into two groups, one going one way and the other going another, but both traveling toward the east. About noon they met at the place where they had separated and re- turned together, bringing the material. Then they went back to the green willow shack. Certain men built the ceremonial shack in the afternoon. This was oblong in shape, the length extending north and south. (Fig. 6.) They rested that night and went into the ceremonial shack early Sunday morning. During Saturday night the preparation of the images was com- pleted, This was done in a very secluded place, perhaps a mile from the place where the ceremony was to be held. The making of the framework has been already described. The final work con- sisted in the modeling and painting of the face, the placing of the h
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