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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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Type : texte

Type : publication en série imprimée

Langue : anglais

Format : Nombre total de vues : 40082

Description : 1929

Description : 1929 (N47)-1930.

Description : Note : Index.

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Droits : Public domain

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Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007

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I have continued to offer you prayer plumes.

Now that the cycle of your months is at an end,

Now that the counted number of your days has been told off

Now that this many days

Anxiously we have awaited your day, Now this day,

We have reached the appointed time. Now I have passed you on your roads." Thus I spoke to them.

When I had spoken thus,

Hurriedly, without delay,

My father took hold of me.

From the very soles of my feet Even to the crown of my head

He clothed me aU. over with all things needful.

When aJl this was at an end,

Then also with that which is called my belt,

His prayer meal,

He covered my navel.

With his bundle that covered it all over. He took hold of me,

His bundle reached ail around my body.

When all this was at an end,

Then also the different kinds of seeds four times he placed over my navel.~ AU different kinds of seeds his bundle contained:

The seeds of the yellow corn,

The seeds of the blue corn,

The seeds of the red corn,

The seeds of the white corn,

The seeds of the speckled corn, The seeds of the black corn,

And also that by means of which you may have firm flesh,

Namely, the seeds of the sweet corn; And also those which will be your sweet tasting delicacies,

Namely, all the clans of beansThe yellow beans,

The blue beans,

The red beans,

The white beans,

The spotted beans,

The black beans,

The large beans,

The smaM beans,

Thé little gray beans,

The round beans,

The string beans;

Then aJso those that are called the ancient round things–~

Thé striped squash,

The crooked-neck squash,

The watermelons,

The sweet melons,

And also those which you will use to dip up your clear water,

Namely, thé gourds;

And then also the seeds of the pinon tree,

The seeds of the juniper tree,

The seeds of the oak tree,

The seeds of the peach tree,

The seeds of thé black wood shrub, The seeds of the first flowering shrub, The seeds of the EapuJi shrub The seeds of the large yucca,

The seeds of the small yucca,

The seeds of the branched cactus, The seeds of the brown cactus, The seeds of the small cactus;

And then aiso the seeds of a!l the wild grasses-

The evil smelling weeds,47

The little grass,

Tecukta,

Kucutsi,

O'co,

Apitalu,

Sutoka,

Mololoka,

Piouliya

Sma)l piculiya,

Hamato

Mitaliko;

And then also the seeds of those that stand in their doorways/s

Namely the cat-tails,

The taJl flags,

« Every masked dancer earries a package of seeds in his belt. It is his "heart." At the dose of any dance the priest who thanks the daneers takes some of the seeds to plant. Those carried by Sayataca are planted in the Ncor of the house he dedicates. (See p. 873.)

Native squashes.

An umdentined shrub sometimes used for prayer sticks.

None of these have been identified. Many are food plants.

48 The doorways of the rain makers, the springs.