DISC-0092 / ITEM-0050

Hako second division: screened ceremonies and child consecration

Chaui Pawnee Hako in Tahirussawichi’s account · Pawnee communities in Oklahoma, United States

Disclosure date: 1904
Date precision: Year
Disclosure method: Academic research
Extent: Partial
Record review: Reviewed

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Restricted material and access

Private fourth-night and fifth-day ceremonies distinguished from the Hako’s public division.

Material type: Closed liturgy
Restricted to: The Fathers, the Son and his near relatives during the secret division; additional internal screening of the child’s preparation
Restriction mechanism: controlled_access
Stated reason: The inspected account does not establish why access is restricted; it explains the ritual’s purposes separately.
Tradition origins: Not recorded

Recorded practice status

Unknown

Status as of: Not recorded
Status claims: Not recorded

Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.

What this disclosure covers

Preface and selected rites and interpretations from the secret division, not the entire public and private cycle.

The text also describes cylinders; those recordings were not located or inspected.

The source

The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony ↗ (SRC-0102; authenticity: Probable)

Author: Alice C. Fletcher, assisted by James R. Murie; explanations by Tahirussawichi; music transcribed by Edwin S. Tracy
Original publication: 1904
Linked edition: Not recorded
Format: Report
Provenance: academic_fieldwork → archival_collection
Rights of source work: Public domain
Identifiers: ia:hakopawneecer00fletrich
Source content hash: Not recorded

Retrieved the Archive scan and metadata; read printed pp. 13–15, 183, 187–188, 201, 213–214, 228, 232–234 and 339–340. Checked the p. 233 image and figure 179 visually. The selected pages support attribution and edition identity; neither all songs nor any graphophone cylinders were reviewed.

Bureau of American Ethnology, Twenty-second Annual Report, part 2, pp. 13–372. The source explicitly identifies the Chaui version and collaboration rather than a pan-Pawnee rule.

File or recording · Document

Open artifact / recovery route ↗

Artifact ID: ARTF-0010
Inspection: Partial
Inspected parts: Printed pp. 13–15, 183, 187–188, 201, 213–214, 228, 232–234, 339–340; p. 233 and fig. 179 visually checked
SHA-256: 3b18871c900342913c302b8d4747bbb0342faefec1c36f2d8c1790b69f5932c5
IPFS CID: Not recorded
BitTorrent info-hash: Not recorded

Complete 398-page PDF captured; selected pages inspected. It is not a recording or cylinder hash.

Claims about this item

These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.

CLM-0180 · Content

The Hako account distinguishes a public division from secret fourth-night and fifth-day ceremonies, with entry limited to the Fathers, the Son and his near relatives.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Chaui account documented in 1898–1902 and published 1904
Locators: SRC-0102: p. 183; analytical recap p. 339
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony ↗ (SRC-0102; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked the cited passage. Source attribution, historical scope and artifact inspection limits apply; no independent corroboration is asserted.

SRC-0102: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0102: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0010: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0181 · Content

For the secret phase, a tent is screened with brush or an earth lodge’s doors are closed to prevent outsiders watching.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Chaui account documented in 1898–1902 and published 1904
Locators: SRC-0102: p. 183
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony ↗ (SRC-0102; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked the cited passage. Source attribution, historical scope and artifact inspection limits apply; no independent corroboration is asserted.

SRC-0102: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0102: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0010: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0182 · Content

Tahirussawichi explains sixteen circuits as four groups recalling Mother Earth, eagles, prayers and the powers invoked, with four-times-four signifying completeness.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Chaui account documented in 1898–1902 and published 1904
Locators: SRC-0102: pp. 187–188, 201
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony ↗ (SRC-0102; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked the cited passage. Source attribution, historical scope and artifact inspection limits apply; no independent corroboration is asserted.

SRC-0102: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0102: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0010: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0183 · Content

The child consecrated at dawn can be a son or daughter of the ceremonial Son; the account allows an older person or mother and baby as substitutes.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Chaui account documented in 1898–1902 and published 1904
Locators: SRC-0102: p. 201
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony ↗ (SRC-0102; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

This is not evidence that the Hako’s secret division was solely a boys’ puberty initiation.

SRC-0102: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0102: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0010: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0184 · Content

A ring of warriors screens the child’s preparation; the keeper explains the painted arch as the sky’s dome and the nose-line as Tira’wa atius’s life-giving breath.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Chaui account documented in 1898–1902 and published 1904
Locators: SRC-0102: pp. 213–214; pp. 232–234 and fig. 179
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony ↗ (SRC-0102; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Text read and p. 233/figure 179 visually checked. The explanation is attributed to the ritual keeper, not inferred from the diagram alone.

SRC-0102: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0102: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0010: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

CLM-0185 · Historical practice

The preface credits Tahirussawichi and James R. Murie, describes prolonged reluctance to explain sacred matters and a preservation motive, and says songs were recorded on graphophone cylinders.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: Chaui account documented in 1898–1902 and published 1904
Locators: SRC-0102: pp. 13–15
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony ↗ (SRC-0102; authenticity: Probable)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

The report’s recording claim was checked; cylinders were not retrieved, heard or hashed in this batch.

SRC-0102: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0102: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0010: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

Evidence qualifications

SRC-0102 · source_authenticity_probable: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0102 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0010 · artifact_partial: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.

Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.

Item notes

Scope basis: expressly secret ceremonies and exclusion/screens (CLM-0180–0181), rather than the whole Hako. Not a generic adolescent initiation or a description of all Pawnee ceremonies. Selected rites and explanations were inspected, not every song.