no Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol, III. 



Ninth Day (Eighth Day of the People). 



At about three o'clock in the morning the inhabitants of the vil- 

 lage begin to stir. In all the kivas where beans have been planted 

 they are pulled and taken to the houses before the smaller children 

 get awake. Small bunches are often tied to the presents to be given 

 to the children at sunrise. The earth in which the beans were grown 

 is emptied into holes that were dug a few yards from the kiva during 

 the night. It is said the children who are not yet members of the 

 Katcina fraternity must not see this earth. 



In the Honani kiva the priests also get up at about four o'clock 

 and at once prepare for the ceremonies to take place later in the 

 morning. The Powamu chief places on a tray four small twigs of the 

 Pikwashovi obtained at Pakavi the previous day and four twigs of the 

 pine branch from Ki'shiwuu; some small bunches of beans and of 

 young corn of each that he had planted in his kiva ; four old eagle 

 wing feathers ; a bone whistle ; a mongwikuru, and the four double 

 bahos* made on the previous day. After having put some honey into 

 the mongiatkuru, he and a few others smoke over the tray. 



Meanwhile, the man who is to act the part of the Hahai-i or 

 Angwushnacomtaka Katcina has put on a large ceremonial blanket 

 itoi-hi) in the form of a woman's dress, hung another toi-hi over his 

 shoulders as a blanket, put on pioccasins and a knotted belt, wrapped 

 a fox skin around his hands (to take the pl^ce of gloves), and, wrap- 

 ping himself in a large man's blanket, he takes the mask under the 

 blanket and proceeds to a shrine, called Shookamutspikvi, which is 

 located about one-eighth of a mile north of the village. The Powamu 

 priest takes the tray with the objects just described under his 

 blanket and goes to the same place. 



While these preparations are going on in the kiva of the Pop- 

 wamu the Aototo and Aholi Katcina have also gotten ready in the 

 Pongovi kiva. Both have tied up five small bv. ches of young green 

 corn which they have grown there and to which they have added some 

 small twigs of the pine branch brought from Ki'shiwuu. The masks 

 had been prepared the previous day. The Aholi paints his body as 

 follows : Both upper arms, the sternum, abdomen, back and legs 

 down to the knees, bright red. The left shoulder and breast, right 

 arm and lower part of the right leg, and a narrow band or ring above 

 the right knee and a similar band below the left knee, yellow. The 

 right shoulder and breast, lower arm, lower part of the left leg and a 

 band above the left and one below the right knee, blue. Having put 



*On one occasion I noticed only four nakwakwosis. 



