. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . aite (PI. xx) and his vicardipping their plumes into the medicinewater and sprinklingthe altar andthe food which had been placed before it; the honaaite then, sitting infront and to the north side of the altar, repeated a long prayer, suppli-cating Mokaitc, (Jougar of the North, to intercede with the cloud peopleof the north to water the earth that the crops might grow; Kohai, theBear, to intercede with the cloud peo])le of the west to water the earththat the crops might grow; a smilar invocation was m
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . aite (PI. xx) and his vicardipping their plumes into the medicinewater and sprinklingthe altar andthe food which had been placed before it; the honaaite then, sitting infront and to the north side of the altar, repeated a long prayer, suppli-cating Mokaitc, (Jougar of the North, to intercede with the cloud peopleof the north to water the earth that the crops might grow; Kohai, theBear, to intercede with the cloud peo])le of the west to water the earththat the crops might grow; a smilar invocation was made to the Tuope,Badger of the South, Kakanna, Wolf of the East, Tiiimi, Eagle of theHeaven, and Maitubo, Shrew of the Earth. The vicar then gathereda bit of bread from the basket and of meat from the bowl and handedit to the honaaite, who left the house with the food in his left hand,holding his eagle plumes in his right; he cast the food to the animalKopishtaia of the cardinal points, begging that they would intercedewith the cloud people to come and water the earth; then, returning to. STEVENSON.] THE GIANT SOCIETY. 93 the ceremouial chamber, he stooped before the altar and to the southside of the line of meal aud prayed to the Kopishtaia, closing withthese words: I have offered you food, our food, that you may eat, andI pray you to exhort the Kopishtaia of tinia [referring to the cloudpeople] to come and water the earth. The male members of the societyeach smoked a cigarette, and afterward tlu> bowl of stew and basket ofbread were deposited in the center of the room, and all gatheredaround and ate. The men then sat on either side of the room and againindulged iu a smoke, the woman and girl sitting on the north side nearthe west end. After the cigarettes were finished the vicar drew afresh line of meal from the altar to the (k)or sitiiated on the south sideand near the west end, and the members formed in line back of thealtar. (An explanation of the drawing of the line of
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