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

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who might leave the drum and dance if they wished to do so, A
singer wishing to dance was, however, required to go outside the
dance circle and enter it from the outside.
After this dance the scalps were taken to the chief in the kiva,
and the women were not allowed to enter. The chief took each scalp
and "delivered it to the Great Spirit," saying "So-and-so has brought
home this scalp and has transferred it to me, and I give it to you."
The chief then placed it in a hole in the wall of the kiva, sealing the
hole. The name of the man who took the scalp was not mentioned
in a song except when the scalp was "walled up." On a certain
occasion "the chiefs, in a line, go around the edge of the kiva and
one after another knocks on a place where a scalp is walled in.
The wall of the kiva is smooth but the chiefs know where each scalp
was placed."
The warfare of the people at Isleta was chiefly against the Navaho,
so their war songs often contain words ridiculing or taunting the
warriors of that tribe. For example, a song might say, "The Navaho
came and caught us unprepared but we got our weapons and chased
them two or three days, then we killed and scalped them."
The next song was said to be very old and to be "about a Navaho
spirit."
(Catalog No. 1996)
No. 48.
War song (a)
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