Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 3—Sun shrine at Masakla. while officers of other fraternities carry their offerings to variousshrines. The *Koshikwe deposit telikinawe at this time, but theyhold no ceremonial in their chamber. There is no exception to the rule of members at large of fraternitiesplanting their fraternity oflerings at this season in the same excava-tion and at the same time as the familv deposit theirs. It is usual forall the memliers of a household to go together: in fact, in all observa-tions made by the


Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 3—Sun shrine at Masakla. while officers of other fraternities carry their offerings to variousshrines. The *Koshikwe deposit telikinawe at this time, but theyhold no ceremonial in their chamber. There is no exception to the rule of members at large of fraternitiesplanting their fraternity oflerings at this season in the same excava-tion and at the same time as the familv deposit theirs. It is usual forall the memliers of a household to go together: in fact, in all observa-tions made by the writer, such has been the case. Husbands deposittheir oflferings in the fields of the families of their wives, and viceversa. A hole al)out 14 inches square and the same in depth is madeby a man of the household, and the plumes, which are carried to thefields on the fifth day, wrapped together with corn husks, are sepa- oThe statement regarding the lines was made pre^-ious to the appointment of the present sun


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