prayer-sticks

The writer has made no attempt to go into the very numerous minute details of this ceremony, such as the mixing of the liquid for snake washing, the making of the elaborate sand painting for the Snake altar, or descriptions of various kinds of prayer-sticks and their specific uses.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

This first day is occupied with the making of prayer-sticks and in the preparation of ceremonial paraphernalia.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

A messenger clad in an embroidered kilt and anointed with honey, runs, with flowing hair, to deposit prayer-sticks at the shrines, encircling the fields in his runs and coming nearer the pueblo on each circuit.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

Later, Dr. Cummings unobtrusively followed the tracks of the priests back along their sunrise trail and out across the desert for more than two miles, to find there a simple altar and nine fresh prayer-sticks.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

Here the priests sing, accompanied with flutes, the shrine is ceremonially opened and prayer-sticks placed within, and they return to the kiva.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

The Snake Chief said to Tiyo, 'Here we have an abundance of rain and corn; in your land there is but little; fasten these prayers in your breast; and these are the songs that you will sing and these are the prayer-sticks that you will make; and when you display the white and black on your body the rain will come.'

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

He was told to go back to his people and explain all these things and tell them to make many pahos (prayer-sticks) and live straight and the good spirits could be depended upon to help them with rain and germination.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

And I will lay many blue prayer-sticks at the shrine of Ta-wa.

Songs of the Pueblo Indians 1920

They have made green prayer-sticks with black points and left them at the shrines to tell the snake people that their festival is here.

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians 1920

Therefore when they returned up the trail to the Mesa, he wandered in the desert below among yellow rabbit-grass and grey iceplants, and visited the springs, and the shrines full of prayer-sticks, and his heart distracted him with love so that he could not stay still.

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians 1920