ii8 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. III. 



Another group of Katcinas that usually appear on this occasion 

 are the so-called Cooyoktu (Cooyokos) of which there are generally 

 four : The Cooyoktu Pawaamu (elder brother of the Cooyokos) the 

 Cocooyoktu Tahaamu (uncle, mother's side, of which there are two) 

 and the Cooyok Wuhti (woman). These are accompanied by two 

 Hehea Katcinas. 



These Cooyoktu are very much dreaded by the children of the 

 village. When a child is naughty or disobedient, the parents or rela- 

 tives threaten that they will call these monsters, who will come and 

 get it. On these occasions, when the latter are in the village, these 

 threats are often carried out, and the conversation that occurs when 

 they come to a house where a child is to be frightened into good 

 behavior is usually about as follows : The Cooyoktu Pawaamu 

 approaches the child and says: "You are naughty and bad ; we have 

 come to get you. You fight the other children, kill chickens (or other 

 similar misdeeds are mentioned), and we shall now take you away and 

 roast and eat you." The Cooyok Wuhti chimes in and repeats the 

 charges and the threats. The child begins to cry and to promise 

 good behavior, but the Katcinas refuse to relent. " Of course, you 

 will be bad again, we do not believe you," and the woman begins to 

 reach after the child with her crook. The latter screams and begins 

 to offer presents, usually meat if it is a boy, sweet corn-meal if it is a 

 girl. The Pawaamu pretends to take the present but grabs the 

 child's arm instead. The pleadings and promises to be better are 

 renewed and finally the two Katcinas say that if the two Tahaamu are 

 willing to accept the presents, they will relent this time. The latter 

 declare themselves satisfied, the meat is put into the hoapu (basket) 

 carried by the woman, the meal into sacks carried by the two Hehea 

 Katcinas, and with many admonitions and threats to certainly take 

 the little sinner if they hear of further complaints, the party moves on 

 to another place, where the same scene is repeated. The Hopi say 

 that formerly the Katcinas would occasionally actually take a child 

 with them, but that once a child died from fright, and since then they 

 content themselves with frightening the children as described. 



The Katcinas of both of these groups always belong to the 

 so-called " Ichiwoti " (Angry) Katcinas. To these belong such Kat- 

 cinas as the different varieties of the Ho, the Big Head, Cotukvnangwu, 

 Sohoncomtaka, Homsona, Motsin, Chaveyo, Snake, Hote (different 

 varieties), Chitoto, Kokopol, Buffalo, Grease, etc. 



I am told that in former years other ceremonies took place on this 

 and the following day. They were especially elaborate and complicated 

 in those years where initiations into the Wowochim, Horn, Agave and 



