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to his lips, whispered a silent prayer on it and sprinkled it into the 

 hole from the six ceremonial directions. Next he placed a baho into the 

 hole, also waving it first towards it from the six directions. He then 

 disposed of the other three bahos but my notes do not distinctly state 

 where he placed them, only that he did not wave them first. My recol- 

 lection, however, is that he stuck them into the sand beside the hole. 

 The latter was then closed into the hole from the mongwikuru, also 

 from the six ceremonial directions and the hole then closed up. 

 Finally Siima again held some meal to his lips, prayed over it, 

 sprinkled it on the place where he had closed up the hole, threw also 

 two times a pinch towards the sun and then returned to the kiva. 

 The four bunches of corn, beans and pine he took to the house where 

 he lived (that of one of his daughters) where they were inserted between 

 the corn that is piled up in every Hopi house as already stated. 



During the day many different Katcinas appear in the village. 

 One group is always led by the Katcina mother, the Haaa Katcina 

 (See Pis. LXVII and LXXII d*), and the blue and yellow Hote Kat- 

 cinas. The Haaa is dressed like a woman. To the dress are fastened 

 numerous crosses or stars made of corn husks. His hair is arranged 

 on one side in the typical whorl of the Hopi maiden, on the other 

 side it hangs down loosely. On the back of the head he wears a disk 

 to which some crow feathers are attached. This represents a scalp, 

 crow feathers being used, it is said, as a slur on the enemies of the 

 Hopi, the Navajos, Utes, Apaches and others, who used to make 

 raids on them as the coyotes and crows make raids on their fields and 

 flocks. It is said that formerly a genuine scalp was used. 



These Katcinas go through the streets and to the different kivas. 

 At some of the latter they are joined by other Katcinas such as the 

 Snake, Koyemsi, Cotukonangwu, Chaveyo, Woyak-Ho and others 

 (see Pis. LXVni, LXIX and LXX), who have dressed themselves up 

 in those kivas. They make the round through the village and to the 

 different kivas four times during the course of the day. They do not 

 perform any special ceremonies but talk, quarrel, make fun, some 

 give presents to the children that were not ready for distribution in 

 the morning, etc. The last round they make in the opposite direction 

 from the others, the Katcinas from the different kivas leaving the 

 group and entering their respective kivas. 



♦The following story is told of the Haaa Katcina : A long time ago some Hopi were living at 

 Batangwoshtoikave (Squash-seed-point), about a quarter of a mile east of Oraibi. One day a 

 mother was putting up her daughter's hair. When she had completed one of the whorls, the 

 daughter observed a party of enemies sneaking towards the village. She at once snatched from the 

 wall a bow. quiver and arrows, rushed to the village, warned the inhabitants, led the defending party 

 and defeated the enemies. That Hopi maiden now occupies a prominent position in the Katcina 

 Pantheon of ihe Hopi as the Haaa K;,atcina and is called the " Katcina mother." 



