FREE TRANSLATION.

Ah! Thanks, my father, my child. Grant unto me the seeds of earth

("daily bread") and the gift of water. Grant unto me the light of thy

favor, do.

As soon as the animal is dead he lays open its viscera, cuts through the

diaphragm, and makes an incision in the aorta, or in the sac which

incloses the heart. He then takes out the prey fetich, breathes on it,

and addresses it thus:

Si! Hom tae-tchu, lu-k'ia yaet-ton-ne, lithl k'ia-pin-ha-i an k'iah-kwin

Si! My father this day here Game animal its life-fluid

(blood)

a-k'ia tas i-k'iah-kwi-na, tas i[']-ke-i-nan a-k'ia

hence thou shalt dampen thyself, thou shalt (thy) hence

with, heart with

i'-te-li-a-u-na:

add unto:

Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 · 第 43 / 57 题