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Show During our visit to the site via helicopter, the Zunis planted prayersticks and made offerings at the shrine outside the cave. The feathers on the prayersticks were identified, in this order, as turkey, eagle, mallard duck, cardinal (also variously described as Bullock's oriole or tanager, the Zuni word is onothlikia), blue jay, night hawk, flicker, and bluebird. Mr. Cordova also made an offering near the cave. The rest of the group waits with the horses (near at gate at #41) until the group emerges from the cave, and the combined groups of the Komosona and Koyemshi climb down from the mountain. There is extensive lithic scatter all over South Mountain, apparently evidence of prehistoric tool-making. From there the entire group moves straight between two peaks to the second night camping spot, #39. Those on horses take the road and meet the walkers on the road near #39. Following their meal the group dances and sings late into the night. Early the next morning activities resume. One group starts out before sunrise ("at about 4:00 am") along the dirt road just to the west of South Mountain, on their way to gather a mustard-colored yellow pigment from a mineral deposit on the southern end of North Mountain, #35. This yellow pigment is used to paint the rain dancers and also is used to paint prayersticks. Later in the morning the Shulawitsi builds a fire with friction using his bow drill and takes it to Shulawitsi Place, #38, where he makes offerings. At Shulawitsi Place our group found bits of turquoise in the small pile of smooth rocks that constitutes the offering place on top of a low cindercone. Shulawitsi Place is called Ulachnanne, "his own place," just as Kolhu/wala:wa is called "Kokko's Place." The term Kolhu/wala:wa is used by the Zunis to relate to the whole area in - 168 - |
