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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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MSONS] TALES OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 451
Lucinda had a lot of jewelry stolen from her trunk, bracelets which
covered her whole forearm, and many necklaces. After Lucinda's
daughter had died she had put this jewelry away. A year later she
was going to begin to wear it, a little, again. "In my family we wait
two or three years after somebody has died before wearing jewehy."
When Lucinda looked into her trunk, the jewelry was gone. They
went after the "old man" (the detective Father) who had gone to
Acoma. At Acoma they said he had gone to the Navaho country.
From this story it is inferable that there is in Isleta only one detec-
tive Father.
44. MARCELLINA AND AMERICAN LAW
Why did my sister Marcellina break into the house of José Padilla
with an ax and take out his blankets and burn them? Marcellina's
son was going to marry a girl. Thé girl had written to him already
and my sister had already spent $200 for the wedding. Then the girl
took her other suitor, the son of José Padilla. For three months that
boy kept driving the girl past my sister's house and whistling and
making a noise to get my sister's attention and then he would kiss the
girl. The boy did not have to pass that way. He went out of his
way to go past my sister's house. My sister sent word to his father
about it, but still the boy went on as before. Finally it was too much
for her. So she went and burned the blankets.
The American judge Ëned her $32 which she refused to pay; but her
son paid it. Then she snatched the money from the hands of the
judge. He sentenced her to 90 days, and she was to report herself to
the jail. She did not report for 21 days and they did not come after
her. That was because she was doing what she knew how to do.
She has power. In jail she had a comfortable bed and room and good
food. Her children were allowed to visit her and eat with her. On
a fiesta they took her out in their car for the day. AU this, because
she was using her power. No other prisoner was treated this way.
It was because of her power. If my sister gets into trouble and is
caught at once, she can't do anything; but if she has one night to
work in (performing ritual) she is safe.
45. A REJECTED SUIT
One day that woman came to my house. She knocked and came
in. She said, "I want to give your daughters lessons, so they can
have whatever they wish." Then she proposed that one of them
should marry her son. I said my daughters were getting on ail right.
I did not want them to get married. Later when Antonita died, I
remembered all that. Perhaps that woman did something to her.
But this is the first time I talk about that to anybody.
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