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

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes
Date:
[1894]
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Credit: The Pá-lü-lü-koñ-ti / by Walter Fewkes and A.M. Stephen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    boxes and vessels of all varieties, they were placed on the floor and ledge at the west end of the kiva, just as the beans were placed in the preceding feast.1 After all was finished, every one smoked pi-ba (native tobacco) in the clay pipes, and then “ Pa-ha!-no (American) pi-ba ” in paper cigarettes. No songs, prayers, nor aught else of a ceremonial nature took place, although some of the elders said that the pouring of water upon the planted corn really expresses a prayer, “for thus we hope rain will come copiously after our corn is planted in the fields.” The planting2 3 4 was finished about 8.30 p. m. Nothing of a ceremonial nature occurred in any other Walpi kiva, nor in those in Sitcomovi or Tewa. Last year there were two ex¬ hibitions of Pd-lii-lii-kona, — one by the Tewa of the Pen-de-te kiva, the other by the Wi-kwal-obi kiva of Walpi; but this year there was only one. Thursday, February 16th. From the 13th to 23d, the evening assemblies in the kiva are called to-kilh-ta, nights. The corn was just peeping through the sand in the vessels in Na- cab-ki this morning. In four days more it is presumed the corn will have grown as high as the width of the hand. And then the Village Orator will privately announce the Yun-yo-ma-ni.3 For four days after the assembly, or until the afternoon of the fourth day, the members of this kiva will observe the usual fast, abstaining from salt and flesh, and preserve continence. The Na-na-mu-i-na-wa wun-pa-yay the racing nodule kickers, a group from each kiva, went in procession to the valley on the west side of Walpi, and ran around the mesa to the east side; each group kicking one or more stone nodules. This occurred on the afternoon of the 12th, and something of this nature occurred every day after this date. Friday, February 17th. The members of the Tci-va-to-ki have de¬ cided to exhibit during this ceremony (on some night yet undeter¬ mined) the Hu-hi-yan (bartering) ka-tci-na, during which they barter the ti-hu(s) (figurines) they have made to the women spectators for pi-ki (paper bread), kwip-dosi (sweet corn-meal), etc., and they began carving the ti-hu{s) 4 in the kiva to-day. 1 Po-wd-mu. 2 The corn thus planted furnished the plants set in the little clay pedestals be¬ fore the Pd-lii-lii-kona screen on the culminating night of the ceremony, q. v. 3 Yiih-yo-ma-ni, when we will assemble; no announcement in public of any ka-tct-na celebration. 4 The ti-hu were made from pd-ko (pa-hu, water; ko-huy wood) the root of the cottonwood.
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