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ancestors.) He sings out in a very loud voice the following words : 

 " Yahaho, hopok KCshiwuu*' paoni^ yapik nu ung nawakna.''^ (You that 

 live at, or you from Ki'shiwuu, come here; just here I want you.) 

 He then turns his face to the west, then to the south and then to the 

 east, each time repeating these words in the same manner, whereupon 

 he rushes up the ladder, being followed by all except the novitiates 

 and the men and women standing on the banquette. The latter 

 keep up a low humming song during which the Powamu priest 

 sprinkles water on the mosaic at short intervals. One of the women, 

 Singossi, holds the Powamu /f/)<7«/ ; Sikahoinoma, the Katcina tiponi ; 

 the other women, corn ears. All await the return of the men. 



Following the men who left the kiva with the Katcina chief 

 (igoi), I found that they ran along various streets to the east side of 

 the village, where the Chowilawu Katcina, having quickly put on the 

 mask and other paraphernalia, joined them and then all returned to 

 the kiva. All were constantly shouting as they ran through the vil- 

 lage. The whole mterval only lasted a few minutes. The men at 

 once reenter the kiva, seating themselves on the elevated portion. 

 They are followed by the Katcina chief, who is sprinkled with water 

 and corn-meal by the men and women on the banquette and then takes 

 a position on the west side of the sand mosaic. Immediately the 

 Chowilawu Katcina also enters, goes to the north side of the sand 

 mosaic and commences a curious jumping dance on the mosaic, fol- 

 lowing more especially, although by no means only, the edge of the 

 mosaic ; his object being, it seems, to jump as often as possible on 

 the small piles of cornmeal. He dances around the mosaic in a sinis- 

 tral circuit four times, constantly waving the pota in such a manner 

 that the different segments or leaves would open and close at different 

 places (see PI. LI). During this dance the men and women on the 

 banquette constantly sprinkle the Katcina with water and corn-meal 

 and wave the tiponis and other objects toward him.f The men on the 

 spectators' portion shout and holloa almost constantly during the 

 performance. At its conclusion both the Powamu and Katcina priests 

 hand the Katcina a baho and some corn-meal. The last two then 

 leave| the kiva, being asperged from the medicine bowl and sprinkled 



♦Ki'shiwuu is a place probably about sixty miles northieast from Oraibi and from there came 

 certain Hopi clans, among them the Honani and perhaps the Katcina. The Powamu cult and 

 various Katcinas are claimed to have been brought from there and for every Powamu and Nimaa 

 ceremony messengers are sent to Ki'shiwuu for pine branches to be used in the ceremony. 



tin the 1895 ceremony the old Powamu priest Siima remained on the banquette and sprinkled 

 the water. In 1897 Qomahoiniwa handed the medicine bowl to Koyongainiwa, while he himselt 

 stood beside the Katcina chief. 



Jin 1895 the Katcina left the kiva before, in 1897 and 1901 after, the Katcina priest. 



