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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
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women south, one man and two younger boys east, theman swallowing three swords at once; and the Hlemmosona again swal-lows his sword facing west. Passing around the circle he receivesthe swords from each person, resting the feathered handles over hisright arm. When all the swords are collected he has all he can man-age; he stands in tlie center of the circle, facing the east, and prays.After the prayer he motions the swords to the six regions and againpasses to the dancers, that each may take his sword. When all havereceived their swords again those east of the ladder diaw as near asthey may to the others on the opposite side * and proceed with thedance, and at its close they make their exit from the plaza by the No one must stand directly over the excavation sacred to Nakee or before the ladder.
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zccus\-< UJ tr < UJ ccO UJ < zz< < COir UJ o < COQ q:O CO STEVENSON) Ma^^KE ^HLAnnAK WE 511 eastern covered way. Ere the last of the dancers has disappearedfrom the phiza the music of the notciied sticks is beouii and tlie menand women form for the circle dance described in the Hlewekweceremonial. The circle gradually increases in numbers, through theuntiring energ) of the amosi and the amosonokia. Much persua-sion is often necessary in order to secure the dancers. On retiring to the ceremonial chamber after the last dance theswords are handed over to the lllcinmosona and all pray before thealtar. A feast brings the sword festival to a close. ORIGIN OF THE SHOTIKIANNA, ARROW DIVISION One day a white arrow point, as long as from the tip of the middlefinger to the second joint measured on the under side of the finger,dropped to the floor through the hatchwaj of the ceremonial chamber.The director of the Great Fire fraternit\ exclaimed: ^ What is this?He lifted the arro

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