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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.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1929
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Langue : anglais
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Description : 1929
Description : 1929 (N47)-1930.
Description : Note : Index.
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PRAYERS TO DEAD WlFE, WITH OFFERINGS OF PRAYER MBAL AND PRAYER STICKS
When a man's wife dies for four days he observes the most stringent taboos. He remains continent; he abstains fromeatingmeat,grease, and salt. He sits alone, a,way from the fire, and must not be touched. He should not speak or be spoken to. Each morning at dawn he drinks an emetic and goes out on thé eastern road to offer black corn meal to the dead spouse. He ~iolds the black meal in the left hand, passes it four times over his head, and throws it away as rite of exorcism. Then, using the right hand, he scatters white meal, and prays. These taboos are thé same as those offered by a warrior who has taken a scalp, and are directed to thé same ends, the removal of contamination and the propitiation of the ghost. The ghost, who is lonely, will try to visit her husband in dreams. To prevent this he uses black corn meal, "to make the road dark" or "to forget."
After the four days he plants prayer sticks and resumes normal life. For 12 months he should remain continent, lest the dead wife become jealous. During this period he is "dangerous." At the end of this period he has intercourse with a stranger to whom he gives a gift, the instrument for removing the contamination. She throws this away. Next day both plant prayer sticks. If he desires to shorten the period, he gets some man with esoteric knowledge to make him especially potent prayer sticks-two or four sets-planted at intervals of four days, which are offered to the dead wife with the following prayer. These same rites are observed also by a widow and a warrior who has taken a scalp.
This is the only example which has come to my knowledge of any offering made to an individual, and even in this the ancestors are included. This prayer is also used with o.EEerings of prayer sticks to the dead, on the fourth day after death, the day in which the spirit is believed to reach the land of the dead.~
hom a.ta.tcu
ho"na'wa,n yâ'toka. ta,'teu
ho~na.'wa.n a,'tsita.
~e'luwa.iakâ
5 hol yam te'laei'nakwi
i'luwakna kwai"ina
ho' to'n o'na-e'latena
yam a,'ka. ci"na ya.na,
to'wa Eo'hana.
My fathers,
Our sun father,
Our mothers,
Dawn
5 As you arise and corne out to your sacred place,
I pass you on your road.
The source of our flesh,
White corn,
!t Two versions follow, one dictated by a man, the other taken from the autobiography of a woman, in the account of the death of her first husband.