Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . , at the end of October. It is performed in theBlack Eyes roundhouse. At this time the ceremoniaUsts can turn people into any animalsthey please, if they think a person has bad thoughts. Or they couldtake from a man his moccasin and turn it into a piece of meat, givingeverybody a taste. So people are afraid to go to this infornuint was so vague about the ritual that he had evidentlynever seen it, although he insisted that Salt woman was actuallybrought in wath their power, a large f
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . , at the end of October. It is performed in theBlack Eyes roundhouse. At this time the ceremoniaUsts can turn people into any animalsthey please, if they think a person has bad thoughts. Or they couldtake from a man his moccasin and turn it into a piece of meat, givingeverybody a taste. So people are afraid to go to this infornuint was so vague about the ritual that he had evidentlynever seen it, although he insisted that Salt woman was actuallybrought in wath their power, a large figure looking like ice. Noprayer feathers are used; they pay Salt old woman (Pahliu) withbeads and turquoise. They clean her veins. The hunt chief holds his ceremony late in October after the asks the town chief for permission to hold it, and he asks for thecooperation of the war chief and the war captains. The hunt chiefis in retreat for four days, performing ceremonial at noon of thefourth day. He blows smoke into his medicine bowl, and he smokes •• Compare Lummis 2: 209— PAHsoNsl CALENDAR 337 toward the mountains, to blind the deer. He whistles to draw inthe deer,^ and he actually does draw in a live deer, according to JuanAbeita, who gave the following account of this achievement whichtook place, not at the annual ceremony, but on an occasion about10 years ago when the medicine societies wanted some deer meat fora ceremony in February and there was none in the house of the townchief, although he is supposed to keep meat of all kinds. The huntchief was appealed to. He summoned the war captains to his house,and among them was Juan Abeita,^* who reported the following asan eye witness. The hunt chief proceeded to make a circle of pollen,leaving a gap toward the east. (Fig. 24.) In his hand he held agoose feather which he would move in circuit as he talked. What hesaid we could not hear. He began to call outlike a wolf or moimtain lion. He told one ofus to
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