Identifier: annualreportofbu0v23powe (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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Publisher: Washington, D.C., G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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. They return to the kiwisine, remove their masks, andsmoke. This particular ceremony of dancing at different points and passingaround the village is repeated four times; each time they return to the kiwisine. The last of these dances closes about an hour beforenoon. In the meantime twelve women of the Corn clan, the supposeddescendants of the Kianakwe, assemble in the kiwisine, taking seatson the ledges on the east, and south sides of the room. Two bowls ofyucca suds are provided, and the priest advances to have his headwashed. Each woman dips a handful of the suds, and when all aresupplied each one rubs them down the forelock of the priest. An earof corn is now rubbed on the top of his head four times. The otherofficers are washed in turn, and all the Kianakwe pass through thesame ceremony. After the washing of the heads, bowls of food and coffee are carriedto the entrance of the kiwi*sine by the wives and daughters of thepersonators of the Kianakwe and are received by members of the
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stevenson) DANCE OF THE KIANAKWE 223 Chupawa kiwisine. The women who carry the food to the kiwisinemust first wash their heads, although they go only to the entrance andreturn home immediately after depositing the food; they wear theirbesl moccasins and dresses for the occasion. This elaborate feast inthe kiwisine is particularly enjoyed by all, including the twelve womenof the Corn clan, as a fast has been maintained by the personators ofthe gods since the previous evening. After each man finishes his meal he collects a bit from each bowlupon a large piece of hewe (wafer bread) and, folding it lengthwise,wraps it at each end with yucca and forms a handle. This packageis eariied in the left hand in the outdoor dance and is afterwarddeposited in the river for the Kianakwe. At the close of the meal one of the Chupakwe tills an Apachebasket with grains of corn of various colors from a cloth that liestoward the west end of the room on which the corn is piled. Hecarries it to the east end

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