Identifier: annualreportofbu0v23powe (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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Publisher: Washington, D.C., G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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n two basket trays,which they rest on the blankets over the left arm, and leave the cham-ber to deposit the food in the river to the Beast Gods. The GreatMother now hastens to the fireplace, and, lifting ashes in her righthand, deposits them in a heap before the dry painting. Two men nowleave the choir, each having an eagle plume in each hand, and dip theashes with the plumes. The head is turned over the left shoulder, theright arm is drawn back as far as possible, and with a sort of sweep itis brought forward and the eagle plume held in the right hand strikesthe under side of the plume held in the left, the two men, side byside, striking their plumes simultaneously. The ashes are thrown firstto the East, then to the North, West, South, Zenith, and Nadir, forphysical purification of those present. After repeating the throwingof ashes to the six regions by striking the plumes, they dip them in Though white-haired and aged, she is considered the most efficient female theurgist in Zufii.
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btevenson) MA/TKE THLANNAKWE 493 the medicine howl and sprinkle all present. The two who cany outthe food from before the altar return, and the three novices beg-in todance, keeping in line before their seats, facing first the east, and thenthe west. They dance until the close of the practicing of the medi-cine, which consumes an hour. The child of 4 years is one of the mostenergetic and the best dancer in the line. As soon as the three dancersare on the floor, two other men leave the choir and, skipping and hop-ping about, gesticulate beast-like before the altar, and very soon theirbodies become the abiding places of the Beast Gods and they beginpracticing upon the patients. A woman deposits a large bowl southof the center of the room beside an aged woman who sits on the floor.During the healing the theurgists throw themselves almost prostrateon the floor and suck at the exposed parts of the bodies of the invalids,and then ejecting into their hands the material supposed to have beenr

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