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Identifier: expeditionsorgan191013191516smit (find matches)
Title: Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian Institution..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution
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hout theknowledge of the people exce):>t those directly associated with therite which is performed quadrenniallv. Although many legends ofthe various Pueblos have pointed indirectlv to human sacrifice in the 8o SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 63 past, it was a revelation to Mrs. Stevenson when she found that thisrite was observed by the Tewa at the present time; and, while it isknown to exist only in two of the villages, she has every reason tobelieve that they are not exceptions. In one village the subject is theyoungest female infant. In the other village an adult woman is sacri-ficed, a woman without husband or children being selected wheneverpossible. The sacrificial ceremonies occur in the kiva. The subjectsare drugged with Datura mctcloidcs until life is supposed to be ex-tinct. At the proper time the body is placed upon a sand paintingon the floor before the table altar and the ceremony proceeds amidincantations and the most weird performances. The infant is nude,
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Fig. 77.—Lucindra Jackson, Yonkalla tribe, Kala-puya family. Photograph from Frachtenberg. and the woman is but scantily clad. The rattlesnakes, which havebeen starved, are turned loose from the pottery vases and allowedto feast upon the body until not an atom of flesh remains. Theskeleton is then deposited, with offerings, beneath the floor of anadjoining room of the kiva. The entire ceremony is performed withthe greatest solemnity. NOTES ON THE ALSEA AND KALAPUYAN INDIANS The opening of the year found Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg in Siletz,Oregon, completing the linguistic and ethnological studies that werecommenced in 1910, among the Alsea Indians. In addition to im- NO. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 81

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