pahos

Turns out she'd taken some pahos that were lying around and tucked them in the brim of her straw hat.

Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005

All of his feathers will be removed except for a few, to be used in pahos and ceremonial objects that will bless the people of Sipaulovi.

Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005

All of his feathers will be removed except for a few, to be used in pahos and ceremonial objects that will bless the people of Sipaulovi.

VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

All of his feathers will be removed except for a few, to be used in pahos and ceremonial objects that will bless the people of Sipaulovi.

VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

All of his feathers will be removed except for a few, to be used in pahos and ceremonial objects that will bless the people of Sipaulovi.

VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

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

Hough [32] says that in accord with the belief that the markings on the tail feathers were caused by the foam and slime of an ancient deluge, the feathers are prescribed for all pahos, since through their mythical association with water they have great power in bringing rain.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

Having reached the village plaza they marched to the Kisa and deposited their pahos and ceremonial offerings, then dispersed.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

These pahos are made of a prescribed wood, of length determined by tradition, and to them are tied appendages of symbolic meaning.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

It is probable that the solution of a carbonate of copper, with which the green pahos were so colored, contributed to the preservation of the wood of which they had been manufactured.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890