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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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f the hand symbol is not clear. The larger pit east of the hand is an extensivebasin constantly tilled with water from rains and snows. The dots surrounding thepit represent Ursa Minor. The short lines, no longer than an inch in the pictograph,indicate the number of years consumed by the Hlewekwe in going from H;inlipin-kla to Shipapolima and thence to Itiwanna, the site of the present Zuiii. Thehuman figure is an ancient Shiwi before the tail and water moss had been removed See p. 34. b While tradition j.ioints to the far northwest as the Zuiii place of nativity, the belief, not only ofthe ^Hlewekwe but of the combined priesthood, that snows were unknown until brought by theettowe of the Hlewekwe on their northern journey furnishes an interesting subject for investiga-tion. According to the Hlewekwe, the roots of grasses, after the snow disappeared, contained muchmoisture and furnished refreshment for them when thirstv. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. CVII
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MAP SHOWING ROUTE FOLLOWED BY HLEWEKWE :WOOD FRATERNITY)IN QUEST OF THE MIDDLE PLACE STEVENSON) ^hlewekwe 445 and the webbed hands and feet cut. The dott^ about this figure denote hail, lor thedirector of the Hlewekwe fraternity desired much liail. The straight line extendingeast and west across the slab indicates the road leading from H;inliplnkia to the SaltMother before she left her home east of Itiwanna. The cross near the east end ofthis line and south of it symbolizes the morning.star. The group of seven dotsdenotes Ursa Major; the group of four, the Pleiades. The short heavy line indicatesthe road followed by the Kiauakwe on their way to the place where they werefound by the Ashiwi. The man and wife made themselves .so offensive to the fraternity thatwhen the) were asleep in one anothers arms on their Ijlanket of siile(a grass) the Hlewekwe lifted them in the blanket and tossed them tothe far north, where they remained and multiplied, becoming giants.These are the SuIjii-a.shiw

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