Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . BASKET WITH MEAL CROSSED AND ENCIRCLED WITH CORN POLLEN, SYMBOLICOF THE FOUR REGIONS AND THE WHOLE WORLD BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. CXIl. a, ANCIENT HLAWE; /-, HLUSIPOWE, FETISHES OF HLEWEKWE, THE SWORD SWALLOWERS STEVENSON) ^hlewekwe 475 bunches of 3arn tied around them below the knee, with sleigh bellshanging, and dance moccasins. The maidens hold a ineach hand (see plate cxii b, c). The 3outh holds his niili l>ctweenhis hands. The Muwaiye advance
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . BASKET WITH MEAL CROSSED AND ENCIRCLED WITH CORN POLLEN, SYMBOLICOF THE FOUR REGIONS AND THE WHOLE WORLD BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. CXIl. a, ANCIENT HLAWE; /-, HLUSIPOWE, FETISHES OF HLEWEKWE, THE SWORD SWALLOWERS STEVENSON) ^hlewekwe 475 bunches of 3arn tied around them below the knee, with sleigh bellshanging, and dance moccasins. The maidens hold a ineach hand (see plate cxii b, c). The 3outh holds his niili l>ctweenhis hands. The Muwaiye advance like drilled soldiers, keeping perfect timewith their heads, hands, and feet. This trio is closely followed bythe amosi and amosonokia of the choir, the drummer and choir,which consists of about 100 men of the Chupawa kiwisine, groupedimmediately behind them. The amosi wear l)lack velvet trousers,native-woven shirts of black, elaborately^ ornamented with red andgreen ribbons, and quantities of necklaces, the iiair being done upin the usual wa}. The amosonokia are dressed simihirly to theettowe-bearers, all l)eing adorned with as many necklaces as they cansecure from relatives and friends. The air rings with the song, whichis quite independent of the Hlewekvve c
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