Plate 8

PLATE 8

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Plate 8, Figure 1

FIGURE 1. Hunters' society altar. Five honani (see footnote  80, p. 31); two lightnings (right, yellow; left, red) (the power for killing game: yellow, north lightning; red, south lightning); fetiches of carnivorous animals; down the center is the hiamuni (corn meal road) which the animals follow to go out; two pairs of mapani (left bear paws, black); bows, arrows, rabbit sticks (brown); bowls of sacred corn meal (orange with white bands); medicine bowl (white with tan design); basket (brown) of prayer sticks (white feathers, variously colored sticks). The tracks (black) of the road-runner are made so the rabbits won't know which way the hunter is heading.

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Plate 8, Figure 2

FIGURE 2. Fire society altar. The frame (green), ichini, is the house of everything on the altar; on right end, Masewi (face yellow; hair black; three feathers white; body brown and black; diagonal twisted rope white); on left end, Oyoyewi (face blue, otherwise coloring same as Masewi); the arc (buff) is the Milky Way; over it the middle figure is Iatiku (yellow face, 3-lobed tan headdress, feathers white); on each side Kuishanako, Blue women (blue faces; forehead white with curved black stripe; headdresses, green triangle in stepped black design topped with white feather); the next two are Kuganinako, Red women (red faces; headdress, orange triangle surmounted by green ball; black petals on either side suggest fleur-de-lis; feathers, white); the two end ones (tall) are Kochininako, Yellow women (faces tan, body and headdress green, feather white). (These women are the mothers of the first-born girls, clan mothers, the first to be born after Iatiku.) The feathers (white, black-tipped) from the horizontal bar represent rain; under the Clouds (white, rims red fringed with black, feathers white) the lines and the suspended feathers (white, black-tipped) also represent rain; at each end, lightning (red); the five corn fetishes at the bottom are honani (Iatiku) (see footnote  80, p. 31); in front, the medicine bowl (white with tan design; inside white with yellow border); on each side, left paws of bears (black) and stone points (gray, brown) used for killing; in front, stone fetishes (black, gray, brown) of Bear, Lion, Wolf. etc.