 ... of a kind of ceremony and prayer which they go to make in it as we go to churches. In this house they have a finely wrought table, round like a wooden dish in which is some powder which is placed by them on the heads of these cemis in performing a...  The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands - Page 42by Jesse Walter Fewkes - 1907 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1907 - 602 pages
...where there.are certain figures of stone, wood, or painting worked in relief, which they call Cemis. ln this house they do nothing but hold services to these...went into one of these houses, and immediately the Cemi spoke in their tongue, from which deception they learned that the idol was artificially made,... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1907 - 466 pages
...placed by them on the heads of these cemis in performing a certain ceremony; then with a cane that has two branches which they place in their nostrils they snuff up this dust. The words that they say none of our people understand. With this powder they lose consciousness... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1907 - 600 pages
...placed 'certain powders with which they sprinkle the heads of the images with definite ceremonics, and with a cane of two branches, which they place...ancestors. . . . Certain Castilians, desiring to see the mysterics of their altars, went into one of these houses, and immediately the Cemi spoke in their tongue,... | |
 | 1909 - 924 pages
...placed by them on the heads of these Cemis in performing a certain ceremony : then with a cane that has two branches which they place in their nostrils they snuff up this dust. The words that they say none of our people understand." Regarding this table Herrera ' says :... | |
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