Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuñi Pueblos - Flutopedia.com

94 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Boll. 165
On the evening before their departure the hunters sat around a
fire of logs and discussed their plans. They talked of the places
where they intended to go and the game they expected to secure.
Each man had his "hunting medicine" in which he placed the greatest
confidence. As in other pueblos, the "hunting fetish" was a small
representation of a bird or animal (cf. p. 20). Evergreen Tree said
this was generally made of soft stone, carved or "worked" with harder
stone, and was occasionally made of clay, but a natural formation of
stone suggesting the shape of an animal was considered more powerful.
If the hunter was an ordinary member of the tribe, he carried his
fetish in a pouch at his belt with cornmeal around it, but if he belonged
to one of the "sacred groups" he might place corn pollen with the
fetish. He said the groups which used the corn pollen were the "Flint,
Giant and Herb groups."
As the men sat around the fire they sang songs addressed to the
spirits that give success to huntere. Anyone who knew the songs
could join in the singing. The song which follows is very old and
words occur only with the first portion of the melody.
No. 66.
Hunting song
(Catalog No. 2004)
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