The Pá-lü-lü-koñ-ti / by Walter Fewkes and A.M. Stephen.

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes
Date:
[1894]
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    THE PA-LU-LU-KON-TI: A TUSAYAN CEREMONY. The present article is one of a series in continuation of those al¬ ready published on the ceremonials of the Tusayan people. The attention of the senior author was first called to the observance of which it treats by a reference in Bourke’s “Snake Dance.” He later received additional information of it from a letter from Mr. T. V. Keam. The junior author has observed it several times, but in 1893 he remained at Walpi and made the observations here recorded. He found that it is an annual ceremony, with many of its incidents varying according to the methods of the kiva intrusted with its presentation, which passes in yearly rotation to each of the five kivas of Walpi. A brief description of portions of this cere¬ mony was published anonomously by some other observer in the “Philadelphia Telegraph,” “New York Tribune,” and later re¬ printed in the “Boston Daily Traveller.” This account is in the main correct, although incomplete, and highly valuable as observa¬ tions of another eye-witness of this curious rite. The description of the ceremony in other kivas in other years is reserved for a final account of this observance. The present preliminary article has for an object to give an idea of the observance in 1893. Expla¬ nations and discussion have been reserved for a more detailed con¬ sideration, when the Tusayan ceremoniology will be treated in a comparative way.1 Sunday, February 12th. This preliminary ceremony is called la-lau-wii, plant doing, the planting. About seven o’clock, as forewarned, the observer went down into the Na-cab-kiva and saw the initial preliminaries of the Pd-lii-lii-kon-ti or Un-kwa-ti,2 as the assemblages for this ceremony are more prop- 1 These observations were made under the auspices of the Hemenway Expedi¬ tion in the winter of 1892-3. An account of the following Tusayan ceremonials has thus far been published: “A Few Summer Ceremonials,” Jour. Eth. and Arch. vol. ii. No. 1; The Ld-la-kon-ti, Mam-zrau-ti, and Na-ac-nai-ya, o.r the September, October, and November ceremonials. Szz. American Anthropologist, April, July, 1892; Journal of American Folk-Lore, October, 1892. Articles on the following subjects are in process of preparation: The Snake Dance, The Walpi Flute, Po-wa-mu, and Soyaluh-a, all of which have been studied by mem¬ bers of the Hemenway Expedition. 2 Uh-kwa-ti — the second or following dance, i. e. the dance following the “ Powamlif from Uh-ki, second or follower, and ti-ki-ve, a ceremonial dance. Four days before the new moon, the u-cu (whistling) Mu'-i-ya-wu (moon), but it could not be distinctly elicited whether these four days before the new moon were the prescribed time for the corn planting ceremony. But I suppose it is pre¬ scribed, at least it is in direct contrast with the preceding or Po~wa-7nu ceremony