Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . t in bythe women of the Deer clan are soon surrounded by the thirsty menwho have neither eaten nor drunk since the previous evening. Thesame is repeated in the Kopekwms house, water being carried thitherby women of the Badger (dan. They indulge in a great feast servedby women of the Deer and Badger elans. After smoking and resting for a time the dancing in the fourplazas is repeated four times. The fourth time they dance in theSiaa tewita (see plate xxxi) the Komosona again tells the GreatFather Koyem
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . t in bythe women of the Deer clan are soon surrounded by the thirsty menwho have neither eaten nor drunk since the previous evening. Thesame is repeated in the Kopekwms house, water being carried thitherby women of the Badger (dan. They indulge in a great feast servedby women of the Deer and Badger elans. After smoking and resting for a time the dancing in the fourplazas is repeated four times. The fourth time they dance in theSiaa tewita (see plate xxxi) the Komosona again tells the GreatFather Koyemshi that it is time to eat. After dancing in the tewitahlanna, they return to the kiwisine and to the house of the Kopek-win, where a second feast is enjoyed. Hero they smoke and have theirheads washed in yucca suds by women of the Deer and Badger summer solstice ceremonies, strictly speaking, are now over, yetit is but the beginning of the Korkokshi dances for rains to fructifythe earth that the crops may grow, the Korkokshi being personatedin turn from the five other
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