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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...that the boy be flogged before all the other novitiates by Katcinas as a punishment and as a warning to the rest. This was done, and the custom was continued. While a good deal of obscurity exists in the tradition as to the details of the manner in which the custom became a part of the Powamu ceremony, etc., it is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...that the boy be flogged before all the other novitiates by Katcinas as a punishment and as a warning to the rest. This was done, and the custom was continued. While a good deal of obscurity exists in the tradition as to the details of the manner in which the custom became a part of the Powamu ceremony, etc., it is stated in a general way that forever after the members of the family to which that boy belonged and their descendants were initiated into the Katcina society in the manner described in the preceding pages. Seventh Day. (Sixth Day of the People.) In the morning as well as in the evening the usual ceremony takes place before the altar, consisting of singing, asperging, smoking, sprinkling of sacred meal, etc., as already described. The two tablets with the pictures of the Ho Katcinas and the lightning frame, that are put up only on the occasion of an initiation, are not taken down, but remain throughout the ceremony. During the day nothing of any ceremonial character takes place, /-. e., outside of the morning and evening ceremony already mentioned. The men in the kiva work during the day between the two ceremonies on the bows, rattles and tihus that are prepared in this and all other kivas to be given as presents to the children on the morning of the last day. Smoking is being indulged in more or less throughout the day and the fasting is observed the same as on the two previous days, no one eating any meat or salted food and the two leaders partaking of one meal only, which is brought to them late in the evening and usually consists of piki (thin wafer bread), which is brought in on four flat, square trays, a dish of beans and water (pongawa) in four bowls of the same size, and almost any kind of food, but none with salt, and no meats. A mush of c...
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