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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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PABSONS] FOLK TALES 361
witches, we believe; from getting sick, people will remember iema'paru
and W~ide.
They were already up in this world when they fell sick and had
to ask iema'paru for power to cure the sick. They were living on
some mountain (name forgotten). They could not find the way to
begin it (the curing cercmony). They had a meeting to find out
how to ask for the power. There were kumpa and kabewidde,
wilaweri (the war chief), the White Corn Mother, and all the other
Corn Mothers (chiefs of the Com groups)
They were thinking it over, thinking it over. At last a boy came
in. He had no father or mother or relations. The other boys did
not like him. One of them who had been playing with him, thinking
he would harm him, went to the wilaweri and said that this boy
could tell them what they needed. So wilaweri told the fathers there
was a boy who could tell them what they needed. They told wilaweri
to caU him in. So wilaweri called him in and gave him a seat and
asked him if he knew how to ask iema'paru for her power. lema/paru
was helping him. "Yes," he said. "To make this power you need
the head one of the world; you need t'aikabede (people chief, i. e.,
town chief)." They did not lmow who t'aikabede was. One man
said that he, the boy, might himself be the t'aikabede. He said,
"For you to ask me properly and have me tell you, you must give
me a smoke (pa]d/om)." So kumpa rolled a cigarette and offered
it to him. He did not take it. He said, "This is not the right one
(kind). You need tepab'paki~mu~epa, native tobacco)." They had
to ask him what ~epab'paki~mu was. (This boy was bom by the
power of iema~paru.) He said to thé people, "If you have faith that
I am thé one to get you out of this trouble, keep your mind on your
ceremony, on one road. I will get you this îepab'paki~mu." 51 A
young girl was sitting there. He went up to her and said to her not
to mind what he did, and he kissed her. That was the first keide
(Mother). That is the way the keide came out. Now he was holding
a big piece of the lepab'paki'mu which he had got with his power
when he kissed that girl. He knew she was powerful like himself.
He gave the lepab~pakfmu to kumpa, who rolled a cigarette and gave
it to him, and he smoked. Before he finished smoking, clouds were
ail around. Lightning and thunder began to come and rain fell.
Then he had to say that he would be their headman (t'aikabede),
and the girl would be their keide. That is how they leamed to make
their ceremony. When they were under ground maybe they were
asleep or did not pay attention. That is why they did not bring
these ceremonies up with them. So they started their ceremonies as
they do them now.
M Compare Dumarest, 215-216.
See p. 257.
6066°–32––24
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