. Bulletin. Ethnology. STIRLING] ORIGIN MYTH OF ACOMA 67 to the council, "I guess our mother latiku does not want us to Hve here any ; They remembered that latiku had told them to go on south to the place known as Haako. "Maybe this sickness is a sign that we should move ; The council decided that it must be so. So Country Chief said he would tell the people they were to leave in 4 days, so they would have time to prepare provisions and make new moccasins and select the things they woidd need to take with them. He ordered that nothing belonging to the religion (alta
. Bulletin. Ethnology. STIRLING] ORIGIN MYTH OF ACOMA 67 to the council, "I guess our mother latiku does not want us to Hve here any ; They remembered that latiku had told them to go on south to the place known as Haako. "Maybe this sickness is a sign that we should move ; The council decided that it must be so. So Country Chief said he would tell the people they were to leave in 4 days, so they would have time to prepare provisions and make new moccasins and select the things they woidd need to take with them. He ordered that nothing belonging to the religion (altars, masks, etc.) was to be left behind. All were to help in taking these things Figure 4.—Diagram of rite of exorcism. When the fourth day came, Country Chief told the chaianyi to go on ahead four lengths (maati'),*^ a long ways, and to prepare a place to stop. So the chaianyi started. They dressed up in their official cos- tumes when they made their first stop. Thej^ made a sand painting on the south side of the camp, representing four mountains (pi. 15, fig. 1). "When the people came, they were to cross these four moun- tains and valleys and thus put the sickness that much more in their <• Informant's note: Maati is the span of thumb and forefinger, "far"; the modem word is teetsa. Four maati was the old way of saying. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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