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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oman, being present, accused the man of approaching her at night with unduefamiliarity, he being her guest at the time. The man was tried, found guilty, andexpelled from office; another was found to fill his place. When ten days have passed after the visit to Hiilon kwaton thesame party goes to the shrine Panitoninkwi in the afternoon anddeposit telikinawe. They return to tlie village by early moonlight,the Council of the Gods, who proceed quietly, preceding the others ashort distance. The songs of the personators of the Koyemshi andShaliiko with their alternates, each party forming its own group, areheard some time before the men are visible. In ten days the sameparty visits Ane hlawa an te kiapoakwi, a shrine on a mound south-west of Zuili; and ten days later they go to Suski ashoktakwi (cojotewtone drinking place). After ten more days they visit Akohannatinakwi (white rocks sitting), a group of white sandstone pinnaclesperched on a knoll which are sacred to the Council of the Gods.
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STEVENSON) 235 Mnfkc nUanna- Showckwen tKot-hi-kire kwe Dogwood Tobacco Turkey Corn Dogwood Badger Sun Com Eagle Coyote Badger Frog Badger Frog Dogwood Sand-hill Crane ! Eagle Bear Eagle Turkey Sand-hill Crane Frog Sand-hill Crane Sun Turkey Coyote Badger Dogwood Sun Dogwood Two of the rocks are marked with porpeiidic-uhu lines cut in tlie rock,one having twent^-nine the otlier twenty-eight lines. It was statedthat these lines denote the number of jears the late Koniosonaand Kopekwin held office, a statement that requires substantiation.The Koyemshi are chosen annually alternately from the fraternitiesenumerated l)elow. It will be rememl)ered that the Great Father isdesignated at the winter-solstice ceremonial, he in turn choosing hisfellows. The clans given are not those of the men ijersonating theKoyemshi, but the clans of their paternal parents. It makes nodirterence to what clan each man who personates a Koyemshi belongs,but his father must be of the clan mentioned. The Newekwe (G

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