Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . rs of23 ETii—04 22 338 THE ZHNI INDIANS [ETH. ANN. 23 her cliin; they all eat lieartily. Cottee and water are freely hidiilgedin. The leader addressiiio- his players, watchers, and the rat man,says: You must eat niueli nt)w. for you must neither eat nor drinkwhile the game is l)eing played. Should the leader of the gameon the opposite side come to him and ask if he did not wish to eator drink with liim, he replies. Yes, we will eat with you, if hethinks it is tjest, Init usually the inxitation i
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . rs of23 ETii—04 22 338 THE ZHNI INDIANS [ETH. ANN. 23 her cliin; they all eat lieartily. Cottee and water are freely hidiilgedin. The leader addressiiio- his players, watchers, and the rat man,says: You must eat niueli nt)w. for you must neither eat nor drinkwhile the game is l)eing played. Should the leader of the gameon the opposite side come to him and ask if he did not wish to eator drink with liim, he replies. Yes, we will eat with you, if hethinks it is tjest, Init usually the inxitation is refused. After therepast the four players and four watchers gather near the lireplaceand apply hear or cougar grease under and above each eye and thenplace red hematite over the grease. The ]ea(hr then asks, Are youreadjr and they reply Yes. and the players and watchers go tothe plaza. The leader takes liis place on the west side of the plazawith liis party: the i)layeis of tlie other side sit on the east side of theplaza l>y tile old Spanisli churcii. Tlie game, whiclj is carried hv the. Fig. 14—Implements used in iyankolo\\ • leader, is deposited on the west side of the plaza, the open ends ofthe cups to the east. The stone disk, ball, and straw counters arelaid upon the cups (see Hgure li). A party from each side is dis-patched for sand, and the tirst leader visits the house of the rainpriest to secure the gauiing ball which was left on the west line ofmeal. If it has moved to the most eastern line, the leader knows thathis side will win. but if it has moved only to the second or thirdline, he can not tell anything about it. He lifts the stone while hestands by the side of the rain priest, and, drawing a breath from it,places it inside his shirt, and saying to the rain priest Soanni(Good-])y), returns to the plaza. He requests one of the watchers toremove the disk from the cups and carry it to the head player ofthe opposite side and ask which side of the stone dis
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