Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . d 35, Black Eyes; JuanRey Lucero or Pawiapyyu (lake light), aged 22, shure; and as womenassistants or keide, Beatris Orgen or Kity (meal altar design, see p. 279),aged 25, shure; Maria Maruxo or la (corn silk), aged 30, shure;Juana Batista or Toyo (prayer stick Uttle), aged 25, Black Eyes. 13. MAGPIES (koARAN) AND POPLARS (NARNIN) (BLACK CORN) These divisions alternate in taking charge of the ceremony. It isoptional with the parent to which division the child may belong. Chief of the Magpies is
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . d 35, Black Eyes; JuanRey Lucero or Pawiapyyu (lake light), aged 22, shure; and as womenassistants or keide, Beatris Orgen or Kity (meal altar design, see p. 279),aged 25, shure; Maria Maruxo or la (corn silk), aged 30, shure;Juana Batista or Toyo (prayer stick Uttle), aged 25, Black Eyes. 13. MAGPIES (koARAN) AND POPLARS (NARNIN) (BLACK CORN) These divisions alternate in taking charge of the ceremony. It isoptional with the parent to which division the child may belong. Chief of the Magpies is Bautista Zuiii or Turshan (sunrise), aged70, shure; his first assistant being Domingo Hohola or Narwiv Identified through Spanish term oraka. ? Yellow Corn is the next largest group. Practically all the hierarchic offices are filled by representativesof the White and Yellow Corn groups. Not kin to the chief. In December, 1925, he died, and the solstice ceremony was not performed by the group. It was saidthat at the following June solstice ceremony the first assistant would be installed PARSONS] ? CEREMONIAL ORGANIZATION 271 (poplar kick stick), aged 30, Black Eyes; his other male assistant,Salanion Lenti or Turshure (a red bird, see p. 274), aged 25-27, BlackEyes; his female assistant, Predicana Abeita or Pienbese (mountain,terrace cloud design), aged 27, Black Eyes. The skin of a magpie is displayed on the altar in their in their prayer feathers no magpie feather is used. Our inform-ant insisted that koaran (fig. 5) didnot mean magpie which was is another very similar soundingword for bluebird, koarade, and it isby this term that a child belongingto the group might be jeered at.^ Chief of the Poplars (narkabede) isVicente Wanchu or Naride (poplar),aged 40, share. His assistants are:Chief, Alcario Harnuo or Tuefuni(cane black),^ aged 22, shure; andJuan Bautista Lucero or Ati (a, me-tate; ti, grinding motion), aged 22, r,a„„E (un
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