Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . place on June 28th, an hour before sunset. This dance differed very little from that of other Katcinas, to whichattention has hitherto been directed. There were twenty-three Katci- Journal of American Ptlinology and Archaeology, vol. ll, No. 1. 300 TUSAYAN KATCINAS [ETH. ANN. 15 nas and five ? Katcinaniaiias, and the masks of both are illustrated iufigures 43, 44, and 45, while one of the staffs which they bore is repre-sented in figure 4C. They sang five songs called Omowuh (cloud),Yoivikka (swift), Pak
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . place on June 28th, an hour before sunset. This dance differed very little from that of other Katcinas, to whichattention has hitherto been directed. There were twenty-three Katci- Journal of American Ptlinology and Archaeology, vol. ll, No. 1. 300 TUSAYAN KATCINAS [ETH. ANN. 15 nas and five ? Katcinaniaiias, and the masks of both are illustrated iufigures 43, 44, and 45, while one of the staffs which they bore is repre-sented in figure 4C. They sang five songs called Omowuh (cloud),Yoivikka (swift), Pakwa (frog), Pawykia (duck), and Patzro (quail).An interesting feature which I had never before seen in Tusayanabbreviated Katcinas was the unmasked dance in the kiva. The secret ceremonials in tlie kiva were as follows: The threepriests, who had previously bathed their heads iu their own houses,made the p^hos and nakwdkwocis. Two of these men made fourprayer sticks similar to those described in the Walpi ceremonial, andone made a loug single paho. These were deposited iu a liat basket. Fir. 44—Mask of Pawikkatcina (side view). tray and smoked upon by those present. Before beginning the manu-facture of the pahos the makers prepared themselves by a ceremonialsmoke.^ At the same time that the pahos were made twenty-threeiiakwakwocis for the Katcinas and five for the Katcinamanas werelikewise manufactured. It was said that there ought to have heen six (possibly one for each cardinal ijoint) of these, whoare called CiwAata, sisters of the Pawikkatcinas. ^I have not been jjermitted to see the unmasked dance of the K6ko in the Zufii kivas, where it iscommon, and was glad to supplement my observations by the same in one of the kivas. Inthe Katcinas which I saw in 1891 at Walpi there was no dance in the kivas. ^The pipe was passed ceremonially after having been lit with a coal (burning corncob) brought bya woman fr^m a house in Sitcomovi. Iu most ceremonials it is also prescr
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