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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.)
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1895-1964
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
Type : texte,publication en série imprimée
Langue : Anglais
Format : application/pdf
Identifiant : ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date
Identifiant : ISSN 0097269X
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z
Description : Périodicité : Annuel
Description : Etat de collection : n. 1 (1879)-n. 48 (1931)
Provenance : bnf.fr
Date de mise en ligne : 12/01/2009
1929 (N47)-1930. Note : Index.
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92 THE ACOMA INDIANS
[ETH. ANN. 47
When the warriors reach the mesa the cacique and some men go
down to meet them. They take the big clubs away from the warriors
and give them smaller, less dangerous ones. The cacique and the
Antelope men hold the warriors back with their ya'Bi while Tsitsinûts
and Dyaitsko'tmne go to the top of the mesa to the barricade. They
place their forearms on the ai~tcin' and their heads on their arms and
cry. Then they pray.~
After Tsitsînùts and Dyaitsko'tume have had time to pray, one of
the Antelope men cries "Cauo!" (Let's go!), and they rush up the
mesa, followed by thé clamorous k~a'~tsina. The Antelope men join
thé people south of the pond. They hold the k'a'~tsina back with
theirya'Bi until all have gathered, when one of the Antelope men again
cries "Cauo!" Then they all run back of the screen (the ai~tcin').
The warrior k~a'~tsina then run up to the barricade, one at a time,
pray, and then strike it with their clubs four times. The cacique
stands by to see that none strikes it more than four times. Should
one do this, the cacique will order two of the warriors to seize him
and beat him with their clubs.
When all of the k'a'~tsina have struck the screen the aitcinititca
(the men who tend the barricade), assisted by the o'pi, take the
barricade to the next station, where it is erected, and the same pro-
cédure is followed. At the third station the o'pi eut the throats
of some of the k'a'~tsina. (Four days before the fight each warrior
k~a'~tsina goes to one of the o'pi taking a waBa~n' (feather, q. v.),
with wbich he prays, and arranges with him to eut his throat, care-
fully designating the time and place, and perhaps giving him a
sign of recognition. This is to insure having one's throat eut by a
friend.)
Each time the ai~tcin' is moved the warriors are held back with
ya'Bi until it is erected in place. When the o'pi cuts the gut of blood
at the k'a'~tsina's throat the blood runs out onto the ground, where it
remains. This is a sacrifice to the earth. If a k'a'~tsina has more
than one gut of blood he will have his throat cut again. They lie face
downward on the ground after their throats are eut, and pray.
Masewi and his brother come around to the slain k'a-tsina and with
their flints and bows touch their heads, shoulders, backs, and legs.
This resurrects them. They come to life slowly and finally stand up.
Gradually they regain their former fury, and grabbing up a club dash
into the nght once more. Sometimes though the k'a'~tsina does not
recover, but continues to lie inert on the ground where he fell. Tn
such a case the other warriors will drag him up to the screen (ai'tein)
and lean him against it. Only k'a'~tsina are killed in the fight; the
Antelope men and the o'pi are not killed.
75 TsHstnuts, it wiU be remembered, was in the Bght at .Kacfkateat" He tried to pacify the k'a''tsma
before the fight; he did notwish them to destroythe village. Now he and Dyaitsko-tume ("he of the Pinon
Mountain," a mountain west of Acoma) try to restrain the warriors; they do not wish to Sght the pueblo.
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