Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . met, has one of these abouthis loins. It is made ofcoarse cotton, on the endsof which are embroidered symbolic figures of rain-clouds, falling rain,and lightning. Ordinarily half of the width is painted green, and thelower edge is black, with nine square blocks of the same color at regularintervals. This kilt is represented on many dolls of the Katcinas figuredin my article on that subject.^ The Katcinas, irrespective of the sjtecial personage depicted, wear abroad cotton sash with knotted strings at the
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . met, has one of these abouthis loins. It is made ofcoarse cotton, on the endsof which are embroidered symbolic figures of rain-clouds, falling rain,and lightning. Ordinarily half of the width is painted green, and thelower edge is black, with nine square blocks of the same color at regularintervals. This kilt is represented on many dolls of the Katcinas figuredin my article on that subject.^ The Katcinas, irrespective of the sjtecial personage depicted, wear abroad cotton sash with knotted strings at the proximal end. In this ^ To these prayers he alone responds Antcai, right. 2The configuration of the mesa and the fact that the house walls rise almost continuously with theside of the clitf prevent the Katcinas dancing on the ditiereiit sides of the juieldo, but in Ziini tlieopen spaces outside the village, in addition to the plaza in the heart of the pueblo, are used for dancesas I have elsewhere described. 3See also Journal <if American Ethnfilogy and Archieology, vol. iv, p. Flo. 41—Maskette of Xnakatcinamana. 206 TUSAYAN KATCINAS Fethannis belt spruce branches are held. A fox-skin depends from the belt, andturtle-shell rattles on the leg- are invariably part of a Katcinas and heel bands are prescribed and bodily decoration withpigments is common, but none of the above are characteristic of specialkinds of Katcinas. The mask is in general the one distinctive char-acteristic of a definite personification. sioCALAKO The Shiilako is one of the most important observances at Zuiii, and ispartially described by Cushing in an article on his life iu Zuiii. Anexhaustive account, however, has never been published. The Hopioccasionally celebrate a Calako, which from its name and other reasonsis undoubtedly an incorporated modification of this ceremonial, as theTusayan legends distinctly state.^ The following pages give an outlineof the Hopi ])reseutation as
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