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Show wearing ceremonial dress. They struck through a corral back of the houses and stores, crossed the River assisted by the Bow Chief (who met them there, and performed some rite, as each passed), and emerged on the first plaza where they were to dance-Komosona leading, and the Sacred party standing by. They must dance in several places before they could break their fast, for dinner and must thereafter dance all night in the kiva before dancing in the plazas, neither eating nor drinking until noon of the following day. Three other Anglos were now watching the dancing, "but no other white people and the spirit of the Zuni dancers and Zuni watchers was reverent and very quiet like the descending darkness." Sergeant then visited with Flora Zuni, who also commented on Kolhu/wala:wa: Surely the lake is dry, for it is the custom on this day for the Mud Heads to come very early into our houses and wake us up by throwing water from the Sacred Lake on our faces, crying: "get up friends, it is raining, get up!" But today they did not come in or scatter water-they just cried outside, "Get up, it is raining-" But there was no water- Flora Zuni interpreted when Sergeant met with the Cacique Hustito. Hustito told Sergeant the "complete myth of the Sacred Lake-with gesture and pantomime so vivid that (knowing it well) I could almost understand it." Hustito had "great anxiety about the Lake." 155 With Norman Napetchka as interpreter she spoke with the Cacique Chico. He had himself accompanied the party to the Sacred Lake and so could speak as an eye witness of its actual condition. He said that it was totally dry-so much so that the party was 155. Sergeant to C.I.A., 1933, og. cit. Only time will tell if Chico's prediction will prove correct. - 106 - |
