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the summer dances will invite the Winter People to participate, and vice versa. 1

Classification by moiety does not enter into the tabUta dance (maskless, with headdress of painted boards) which is danced by all together including the Laguna people settled at Isleta. 2 The tablita dance is performed Christmas and New Year's eves inside the church, as is the corresponding dance, the talawaiye, at Laguna, and the four succeeding days in the plaza.

At Isleta the image of the santu or saint is carried out on a circuit of about five miles through the country on the days of Little San Augustin, June 10, and of Big San Augustin, August 28 (?). The women carry the image as they do at Zuni when santu is taken out to the fields in time of drought. The Isleta trip is made in the morning and in the afternoon, after food offerings for the santu are taken to the house of the "war captain" (see below), tarawai (talawaiye) is danced under the direction of the secular officers (see below) in the plaza where a bower has been made for the santu,

According to my informant, there are no masked dances at Isleta, there are no k'atsina. The only masks worn are those of the teen, equated with the chapio of Laguna 3 and Acoma, bugaboos the children are told are Mexicans. At Isleta the two teen are said to live in Matsena mountain (?) ; they wear white masks, they do not talk, and they serve as guards against intruders. Because there are no k'atsina at Isleta the Indians of the northern pueblos, I was told, call the Isleta Indians Mexicans, and will not admit them as onlookers at their own masked dances. In the Isleta dances the face is whitened and a feather headdress is worn.

1 Cp. Noel Dumarest, "Notes on Cochiti," Memoirs, American Anthropological Association, vol. vi, no. 3, p. 184 n. 6.

2 Classification by moiety occurs at Laguna in connection with the dances in which the alternating dance group figures in church feast dances. Among the East side people (hanityume) are grouped the following clans: Sun, Corn, Eagle, Turkey, Water, Turquoise. West side people (purnityume) are: Lizard, Bear, Parrot, Coyote, Chaparral Cock, Oak.

3 The Laguna chapio wears long hair and a black faced mask with a white cross on the forehead. A white neck kerchief holds the mask in place. He carries a whip and ropes to bind the children. From his trousers he shakes out peaches and nuts for the children. It seems likely that chapio like atoshle of Zufii is derived from El Aguelo (El Abuelo) of the Mexicans. A. M. Espinosa, ("New-Mexican Spanish Folk-Lore." JAFL 29 (1916), pp. 517-18). Cp., "Notes on Cochiti," pi. vn, fig. 2.

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