Four days is the spirit’s journey
To the land of ghosts and shadows,
Four its lonely night encampments;
Therefore, when the dead are buried,
Let a fire as night approaches,
Four times on the grave be kindled,
That the soul upon its journey
May not grope about in darkness.
—LONGFELLOW, _Song of Hiawatha_.
[22] The _Cheani_ are the medicine men or curative shamans, who are
officers also of weather control.
[23] The Indian word is _ha-chamoni_, meaning “they take the breath.” It
is invariably a notched stick with plumes attached, and is illustrated
in _Eleventh Annual Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 78. See
Appendix II.
[24] The Warrior Dance.
[25] _Kasik_ is given as the Keres form of cacique.
[26] This is the same as the _asa_ at Hopi or the _ise_ at Laguna.
[27] To avoid confusion, it is wise to reserve the word _kiva_ for
the ceremonial chamber of the Indian pueblo, and _estufa_ for the
sweat-houses.
[28] _Final Report_, Pt. I, p. 268.
[29] Cosmos Mindeleff, Introduction to _Eighth Annual Report_, Bureau of
American Ethnology, p. xxxi.
[30] _Relación de Father Fray Francisco de Escobar_, October, 1605. Also
in Bandelier, _Final Report_, Pt. I, pp. 143-145.
[31] Description by Leslie Spier, _Havasupai Days_, in _American Indian
Life_, edited by Elsie Clews Parsons.
[32] In certain tribes women have rites to perform that necessitate
_kivas_ for their special use.
[33] Lummis, _The Land of Poco Tiempo_.
[34] Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), _The Soul of an Indian. An
Interpretation_.
[35] Translated by Alice Fletcher, in the _Path on the Rainbow_, edited
by George Cronyn.
[36] _The Coronado Expedition by Castañeda_, _Fourteenth Annual Report_,
Bureau of American Ethnology, translated by G. P. Winship; _The Journey
of Coronado_, _Trail Makers’ Series_, 1904, translated by Winship; _The
Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado by Pedro de Castañeda_, _Spanish
Explorers in the Southern United States_, edited by F. W. Hodge.
[37] _Doc. Inéd. de Indios_, Vol. III, _Relación du Voyage de Cíbola_,
translated by Ternaux Compans; abstract in English by Fewkes in _Journal
of American Ethnology and Archaeology_, Vol. III, 1892.
[38] Very exhaustive studies and excavations were made of Háwikuh
by Frank Hamilton Cushing, between 1879 and 1888. His reports can
be consulted in the _Thirteenth Annual Report_, Bureau of American
Ethnology, and in separate monographs. There are later studies by Fewkes
and Stevenson.
[39] Hodge affirms that Jaramillo and Zárate-Salmerón say it was Háwikuh.
_American Anthropologist_, April, 1895.
[40] There are many spellings of this name. According to Hodge, “Ako” is
the Indian form. See Appendix I.
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