Plates. Plate 5 : PLATE 5 Plate 5, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Kuapichani katsina. Wearing full katsina costume; eagle feathers (white with black tips), stick (black) with humming bird (red); parrot-feather topknot (red and green); ears (brown) painted as usual the color of the forehead (brown); spruce collar (green);...
Bibliography : p. 115 BIBLIOGRAPHY BAILEY, VERNON 1931. Mammals of New Mexico. U. S. Dept. Agric., Bur. Biol. Surv., North American Fauna, No. 53. BANDELIER, A. F. 1890. Final report. Pap. Archaeol. Inst. Amer., Amer. Ser., vol. 3. 1918. The delight makers. New York. 1940. Pioneers in American anthropology:...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xviii : WANDERINGS, PART XVIII It is not known how much longer the people lived at the bottom of the rock, but much time elapsed. Many officers died away but finally there came a time when Kasewat 95 was Country Chief, being the only son of the war chief [?]. The older people remembered that Kasewat had...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xi : WANDERINGS, PART XI For a long time it went on thus and all was well. Sometime afterward, a sickness fell upon the people at White House and for the first time sickness brought death to many people. The population decreased rapidly. The chaianyi called this sickness ushporoni. It was a disease with...
Plates. Plate 8 : PLATE 8 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)...
Title Page : p. i SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 135 ORIGIN MYTH OF ACOMA AND OTHER RECORDS By MATTHEW W. STIRLING UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1942 For Sale By The Superintendent Of Documents, Washington, D. C. Price 35 Cents Scanned , January 2004. John...
Plates. Plate 1 : PLATE 1 Acoma katsinas PLATE 1, Upper Left UPPER LEFT: Morityema, ruler of West Mountain. Eagle-feather prayer stick and topknot of parrot feathers; circle represents a blossom with colors of the four directions; snout of wood with rabbit fur; collar of crow feathers. Greenish blue (turquoise)...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xv : WANDERINGS, PART XV p. 77 In the meantime the Twins had made the katsina angry. They called a meeting of the katsina from all directions to meet at North Mountain to discuss what to do about the Twins who had been so rude and who had so much power against them. The officers of each of the four...
Plates. Plate 4 : PLATE 4 Plate 4, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Shruisthia, ruler of East Mountain. Eagle-feather prayer stick (black and white); parrot-feather topknot (red and green); blue yarn over forehead ending on either side in brown earrings, with tassels of turkey feathers, blue tipped; mask, black (for night);...
Origin Myth. Origin Of The Evil Spirit : p. 11 ORIGIN OF THE EVIL SPIRIT When Tsichtinako was instructing Iatiku and Nautsiti, Tsichtinako cautioned them to be always very careful in handling their baskets. They were very careful for a while but they soon became too anxious to give life to what was still in their baskets and they became...
Present Customs Of Acoma. Koshari Initiation : KOSHARI INITIATION 31 My informant's father was chief of Koshari, and he told members that when he died he wanted his oldest son to take his place. When the time came, the Koshari told his mother that they wanted him. His mother told him there was no way out of it, since his father had wished him...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Vi : WANDERINGS, PART VI Before leaving, Iatiku said to Country Chief, "You have made me cry. I feel hurt that I can no longer be with my people. It has been ordered that these eggs which are still left in the basket should be taken by the people till they reach a place called haako (the real name...
Plates. Plate 6 : PLATE 6 Plate 6, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Nawish katsina. Eagle feathers (white with black tips); parrot-feather topknot (green and red); forehead brown edged with blue yarn; face painted with colors of the directions: orange (background of face), the earth, yellow (stripe at upper right), the Sun; green...
Plates. Plate 13 : PLATE 13 Plate 13, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Maiden's hair frame (design in green, red, blue, yellow, white), Koshari prayer sticks; from left to right: 1st, face and body pink, scallops blue, top piece yellow, stick brown; 2nd, face and body yellow, scallops green, top piece blue and green; 3d, face...
Present Customs Of Acoma. Selection Of Officers : p. 99 PRESENT CUSTOMS OF ACOMA SELECTION OF OFFICERS 1 Following the 4-day Christmas feast everyone gathers at Acoma, so on December 28 new officers are "elected." The Antelope Clan 2 has the authority to name the men. The Antelope clan selects about 2 months in advance. They select at least two...
Plates. Plate 17 : PLATE 17 Plate 17 Prayer sticks for the Mountains of the four directions. N: Spruce wood (brown; face yellow) and twigs; headdress (center black, outlined in green, sides red, top edged with green), symbol of snow for winter. "W": Pine (brown; face blue); okai reeds (green) from early spring water...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xvii : WANDERINGS, PART XVII Masewi and Oyoyewi were active as usual, traveling in different countries, from which they brought back many scalps of people they killed. The rulers in the four directions did not like the Twins, so they held a meeting and decided that the Twins were doing too much wrong...
Present Customs Of Acoma. Katsina Initiation : KATSINA INITIATION 23 This initiation goes back in place to White House where the real katsina left and the katsina society was organized. Acoma people do it exactly the same today. This ceremony usually follows a little after the dramatization of the katsina fight; now it is early in April. Every...
Illustrations : ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES NOTE: All plates are thumbnailed along with the 'Explanation of Plates' section, starting on page 118.--JBH
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Ii : WANDERINGS, PART II Everybody was still living, no one had died yet. So the oldest man of the Oak clan was notified that he had been chosen and that he was to come to the broken prayer stick. So they brought him in and told him he had been chosen as the man to be helpful when any sickness p. 29...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Viii : WANDERINGS, PART VIII After this the people began to quarrel. They found many new bad words 36 to use against each other. Fights and feuds arose. They did not like each other much any more. They had heard what had been said between Country Chief and Tsitsanits, and that the katsina leader w...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xiii : WANDERINGS, PART XIII The people lived at Washpashuka a long time. The katsina, used to come and dance for them. After a time, some of the men began to mock the katsina again. They found out who these mockers were; the War chief found out their names. He remembered how the katsina had come...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part I : WANDERINGS, PART I The game was all gathered and saved for the katsina at the house of Antelope clan. After this had been done, the men who had been taught the hunting songs, made songs of their own, rejoicing over the hunt, and put on a dance in honor of the Eagle Man and proclaimed him leader...
Plates. Plate 11 : PLATE 11 Sun and Moon paintings (These figures are used in sand painting or on kiva wall to get power from Sun and Moon.) Plate 11, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. The Sun. The face is red because the Sun is male and the giver of strong light; ornament on forehead (brown and black triangles, divided by white...
Plates. Explanation Of Plates : p. 118 EXPLANATION OF PLATES (These plates have been reproduced from water color paintings by an Acoma Indian. The colors of the originals are described in the explanations.)
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xiv : WANDERINGS, PART XIV A long time passed after this until again they had trouble. Some people did not approve of this dramatization and quarrels started. Some of the relatives of those killed left the tribe. Some of the people said they were not happy at this place, so they decided to leave...
Plates. Plate 15 : PLATE 15 Plate 15, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Sand painting and paraphernalia for exorcism (gray, red, blue, and yellow triangles; green crosses, frame, and grasses). Plate 15, Figure 2 FIGURE 2. "a", Face paintings of the dead. 1, Woman (face yellow, red spots on either cheek, necklace coral). 2. M...
Plates. Plate 14 : PLATE 14 Plate 14, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Prayer sticks used by Kopishtaiya, also Antelope clan staff. "a", Trail (hiamuni) prayer stick (gray and blue). It opens the trail; it is laid so that the head faces the pueblo. The Kopishtaiya use it in entering the pueblo. "b", Shield (haiitsi) of Kopishtaiy...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part V : WANDERINGS, PART V For a long time after this all was well, these two groups of chaianyi did well by the people, but there came another sickness on the people which the chaianyi failed to cure. (Iatiku was still with the people.) So Oak Man thought of making another order of medicine men to be...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Ix : WANDERINGS, PART IX After this, all went well and it began raining and rained at frequent intervals. Everything went on all right and during that summer and fall the people had plenty of everything. The people were still at White House. In the winter Antelope Man though of trying out...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xii : WANDERINGS, PART XII While they were living at Washpashuka, the Twins, Masewi and Oyoyewi, traveled around the country a great deal. During their wanderings they found a group of katsina belonging to the Corn clan and these katsina had different names. So when Masewi and Oyoyewi came back...
Plates. Plate 10 : PLATE 10 Plate 10, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Kiva floor and murals. Central panel shows floor with medicine men (X X X) sitting behind altar, with shipapu kuwatsaishuma (O), medicine bowl ( ), tsiwaimitiima ( ), fireplace ( ), ladders ( "). North wall": Flint bird (white with black and brown dots, legs...
Origin Myth. Origin Myth : p. 1 ORIGIN MYTH OF ACOMA AND OTHER RECORDS BY MATTHEW W. STIRLING ORIGIN MYTH In the beginning 1 two female human beings were born. These two children were born underground at a place called Shipapu. As they grew up, they began to be aware of each other. There was no light and they could only...
Preface : p. vii PREFACE The following information was obtained in September and October of 1928 from a group of Pueblo Indians from Acoma and Santa Ana visiting Washington. The Acoma origin and migration myth is presented as it was learned by the chief informant during his initiation in youth ...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Vii : WANDERINGS, PART VII All was going well for a long time until again some one who had the game brought it back, and the young people began again to play, although the old folks scolded them. Now one time the katsina came to visit, bringing presents and rain. That night after the katsina left, one...
Plates. Plate 16 : p. 123 PLATE 16 Plate 16, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Weapons (waiishi) given by Sun to the Twins. "a", Dart used before any other weapon; corn cob (brown), large and burned and smoothed with stone; wood foreshaft (black) with arrowpoint (gray); feathers of any kind. "b", Throwing stick (chaipichama), hard...
Plates. Plate 12 : PLATE 12 Plate 12, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Drum. Sides are yellow with vertical blue lines; band at base, blue with white scallops; top blue; katsina symbol in center of top, yellow with green and white band and hornlike projections of red; boatlike object lower edge p. 122 of top, yellow with blue...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part X : WANDERINGS, PART X A long time passed, and there were more and more members in the katsina and Kopishtaiya group. Antelope Man gave all of them authority to bring in others to be initiated. They had this authority for, like the chaianyi, they were agents of supernatural power. So Antelope Man would...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Iii : WANDERINGS, PART III p. 33 Iatiku had three more things in her basket. She knew that there were two eggs, parrot, and crow, but the third thing she did not know, so she decided to bring it to life, and see what it was. So she said, "Come alive! Let us see what you are like." And at her words it...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Iv : WANDERINGS, PART IV It happened that a man came and wanted to be a chaianyi. So Oak Man told (him) he would be Kapina chaianyi. Oak Man asked Iatiku what this Kapina was going to represent. Iatiku said he would represent Tiamuni (her husband). Iatiku left it to Tiamuni to say how the altar would be...
Origin Myth. Fetishes : FETISHES When hunters go on a big hunt they get fetishes from Eagle Man which they bring along. When the hunter takes the heart out, the fetish is made to drink blood from the heart. These fetishes are kept in each family. Iatiku made the first one for Eagle Man and he taught p. 23 the others how...
Origin Myth. Rule For Tracking Large Game : p. 22 RULE FOR TRACKING LARGE GAME Suppose a man starts early in the morning tracking an animal. Another man starts later and comes in ahead and kills the animal. It belongs to the one who first started to track it. After hunting all day, when the people were about to make the last circle, Eagle...
The Birth Of The War Twins : p. 92 THE BIRTH OF THE WAR TWINS After the famine at White House there was a woman living with her daughter. This girl and her mother were hated by everyone. They took care of their own field and no one spoke to them or invited them to their house. But the katsina were very fond of them, as they...
Plates. Plate 7 : PLATE 7 Plate 7, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Chakoya katsina. Mask black bordered with brown; eye-slits yellow; blue feathers from duck head around the mouth; teeth of corn husks; beard of human hair. A skirt of an entire buckskin hanging almost to the feet will be worn. Plate 7, Figure 2 FIGURE 2...
Plates. Plate 3 : PLATE 3 Plate 3, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Antelope clan altar. Oak crooks (brown) with eagle feathers (white with black tips); turkey feathers (white with black tips) on end of hook; masks, left to right--(1st) Shumaashk (face green, rest brown); (2nd) Ahote (black, ears blue); (3d) Gomaiowish (brown...
Plates. Plate 9 : PLATE 9 Plate 9, Figure 1 FIGURE 1. Katsina prayer sticks. Made of willow (a "water" tree); the bark is left on and the lower part (brown) represents legs; measured from base of palm to tip of middle finger (about 7 inches); turkey feathers (white), on top eagle down; the faces are painted...
Letter Of Transmittal : p. iii LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, "Washington, D. C., November 1, 1941". Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a manuscript, entitled "Origin Myth of Acoma and Other Records," by Matthew W. Stirling, and to recommend that it be published...
Origin Myth. Wanderings, Part Xvi : WANDERINGS, PART XVI The people were still looking for Haako. They had not lost the two eggs that had been given them. They said, "This cannot yet be the right place, our bad luck shows that." So they got out into the plains again and moved south. They passed many ruins where people had been living...
