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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he pole,alternate in keeping guard over it until the crowd disperses forrefreshment. The first body of Ashiwanni and others return to tlieir homes. Themembers of the Bow priesthood, with the victor and scalp-kickers,after again passing four times around the village coil fashion,adjourn to their ceremonial chamber, where a feast is served. Laterthe populace gather around the scalp pole and dance throughoutthe night. The scalp dance is repeated twelve nights, and is underthe verj shadow of the old church erected by the Spanish invaderstwo lumdred years ago with the hope of bringing these people to theChristian faith. None are too aged and few too young to participate »The coil, often conventionalized into the square by the Zuiiis, the significance of whicli they care-fully conceal, is their seal, and ■■wherever foiuid it surely indicates that the Ashiwi have passed thatway and were at one time the owners of the land. 3UREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. CXXXI
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SCALP POLE IN CENTER OF PLAZA STEVENSON! 587 in this dance and song- of rejoicing for the destruction of the eneni).Young- children are led to the dance by their mothers, who offerprayers to the Gods of War to give the lives of the enemy to the Zuiiis.Occasionally a wish is expressed that the Navahos, who are celebratedamong the Indians of that section for their fine peach orchards, mayeat peaches enough to kill them. The victor must not touch animal food, grease, or salt for ten days,and his food must be cold, for should hot food be taken at this timehe would become corpulent—something the Zunis aim to avoid; yetthe women, at least many of them, become so with age. For thesame period he must observe continence, by command of the Gods ofWar. His elder brother and the scalp-kickers must observe this fastfour days. The victor and scalp-kickers remain as far as possiblefrom the fireplace, though only embers rest on the hearth. Theydo not remove any part of their clothing during the fou

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