Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . to the ritual groupshown in the illustration a tablet altar similar to those used by otherfraternities. Each one having wrapped his own prayer plumes together, these aregrouped by the Hlemmosona with the offering of the Shiwanni ofthe West into a kiaetchine,6 and the hakwawe are wrapped around itsbase and held in place by a cotton cord. After the kiaetchine hasbeen sprinkled with meal and prajred over by all the members of thefraternity, each of the four men who accompany the bearer of thekiaetchine t
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . to the ritual groupshown in the illustration a tablet altar similar to those used by otherfraternities. Each one having wrapped his own prayer plumes together, these aregrouped by the Hlemmosona with the offering of the Shiwanni ofthe West into a kiaetchine,6 and the hakwawe are wrapped around itsbase and held in place by a cotton cord. After the kiaetchine hasbeen sprinkled with meal and prajred over by all the members of thefraternity, each of the four men who accompany the bearer of thekiaetchine to the spring in which it is to be deposited prepares eight a The hlePttonC is covered with native cloth, and an ear of corn is placed on it, the corn beingcompletely obscured by prayer plumes, whose ends project beyond the package, and by elaboratewrapping of precious bead necklaces which almost covers the white cloth and telikinawe. 6 The KlaPtchinf consists of a number of prayer plumes wrapped together at the base. JUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. CVIII 4 ?. ^?^?^T ?~*—-s^
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