Identifier: annualreportofbu23smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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e man at thehead of the eagle holds its mouth open while the other, standing withhis head some distance above the eagles, ejects the mixture of kaolinand chewed corn into the eagles mouth; then, throwing the remainderfrom his mouth over the eagle, he rubs that which remains in thebowl over every spot where the white flufiy plumes should grow.The corn is used that the plumes maj^ soon grow, as corn comes up,and the kaolin that the plumes maj be white. While this is goingon in the center of the room the old shiwanni sits with his back to thefiie, with piles of plumes before him and a basket on the ledge byhim, filled with plume sticks. When the plumes are all assorted intogroups he attaches them to the sticks. After each telikinane is com-pleted he breathes upon it and oflers a prayer. The eagle is carriedunder cover of the l)lanket to his cage, where he remains in compara-tive peace until re(iuired for another plucking. The preparation of wheat and corn bread for the feasts that follow
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STEVENSON) WINTER SOLSTICE CEREMONIES 115 is elaborate. The light bread, which is made into fanciful shapes, isbaked in the ovens which illuminate the town on the fourth night, thisbeing the last opportunity for their use until the ten days devoted to the ceremonial expire. At noon on the fourth day the new-3ear tire-maker starts on his tourthrough the village for wood. He collects a fagot of cedar from eachhouse, the person giving the wood offering a prayer that the crops maybe bountiful in the coming jear. As the wood is collected it is tiedtogether, and when tli(> fire-maker has a load he cariies it to theHeiwa kiwisine, entering through the liatchway in the roof. As soonas the wood is deposited he starts for more, and he continues untileverj house in Zuni has donated its share. The kiwisine is entered each time through the hatchway, and thecollector also leaves b\- the same entrance. Upon leaving the kiwi-sine after having- deposited the last load of wood, the fire-maker goesto

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