[147] Part of the feeling about the _ettowe-iyatik_ type of fetish is the extreme reluctance to disturb it, or to remove it; so that as long as there is a woman who can be trusted to safeguard the fetish properly in its house, i.e., to feed it, and to preclude intrusion, the fetish will be left in the house it is associated with. On the other hand, it is the men who are supposed to know the songs and prayers associated with the fetish. Elsie Clews Parsons, _Laguna Genealogies, American Museum Anthropological Papers_, Vol. VIII, 1923. See Appendix VIII. [148] A. L. Kroeber, “Thoughts on Zuñi Religion,” _Holmes Memorial Volume_. [149] Full discussions of his functions in Bandelier, _Final Report_, Pt. I, 278 _et seq._ [150] There is a good account of this ceremony and duty in a story called _The Flute of the Gods_, by Marah Ellis Ryan, which gives a vivid impression of what is probably true of many of the tribes. [151] A word meaning “person in authority.” One informant told the writer that any officer may be called _hócheni_. [152] Because of the scarcity of game all through the pueblo region, save only in the mountains behind Taos, the rabbit hunt is now the only one pursued. [153] A very holy shrine of the war captains of Laguna is southeast of Ácoma, an entirely detached mound, and Dr. Parsons was told by the sister of the Osach _cheani_ (Sun medicine man) that it would be visited by men of Ácoma, Zuñi, and other towns. This is described in figures in _American Anthropologist_, Vol. XX, No. 4, p. 382. There are also beautiful illustrations of war feather-sticks. [154] _American Anthropologist_, Vol. XX. [155] _Final Report_, Pt. I, p. 285. [156] “Antelope Clan in Keresan Customs and Myths,” _Man_, December, 1917. [157] _Notes on Ácoma and Laguna_, _American Anthropologist_, Vol. XX. [158] This sketch outlines only the barest essentials of the winter festival. Anyone interested in more detail should read the careful description by Dr. Parsons. [159] George Gwyther, M.D., in the _Overland Monthly_, March, 1871, p. 265. [160] Natalie Curtis Burlin, _The Indians’ Book_. [161] T. T. Waterman, _The Explanatory Element in the Folk-Tales of the North American Indians_, _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vol. XVII. Folk-tales are the art of fiction, in its varied “forms of satire and humor, romance, adventure” (Alexander). [162] A. M. Espinosa. Collected by Miss Matilda Allen, _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vol. XXVII, 1914. [163] Cushing, _Zuñi Folk-Tales_. [164] A ruin at the foot of the mesa on which Ácoma is built. It lies on the eastern side. It is where their ancestors lived, the people say, before they built on the mesa.—E. C. Parsons, in _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vol. XXXI, No. 120, April-June, 1918.