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had been successful and that these objects would produce rain, 

 which was symbolized by this moisture. 



Hereupon the youth prepared to return to his home, but Ah61i 

 restrained him and said: "Now, to-morrow when the sun rises we 

 shall make a prayer-offering and you must do the same, because 

 when we came we heard somebody sing away up there somewhere." 

 So early the next morning they dressed up in their costumes, the 

 Katcina being dressed in a tliihi, a kilt, and his mask; his body also 

 being painted nicely. In his right hand he carried a stick, natfingpi, to 

 the middle of which were tied beads and a bundle of bahos. In his 

 left hand he carried the objects which he had obtained the previous 

 day. The mana was dressed as the Katcfn-manas are yet dressed 

 to-day. She carried in her left arm a tray (p6ta), containing 

 different kinds of seeds. They proceeded to a baho shrine west of 

 the present village of Walpi, half-way down the mesa. Here they 

 sprinkled a little meal to the sun and on the shrine, this little rite 

 being called kiiivato. As they were performing this rite they again 

 heard the same voice singing on top of the mesa, which they had 

 heard before. 



There were then no villages on top of the mesa, but the shrine of 

 TaMwhtoika was there already, and at this shrine some one was sing- 

 ing. When looking up they say that it was the Big-Hom (Wopakal) 

 Katcina. Hereupon they returned to their house, but immediately 

 started up on the mesa to look for and meet the one that they had 

 heard singing. So they went up and reached the top of the mesa 

 somewhat west of the bah6ki. Here they noticed some one dressed 

 in a white mask with very small openings for the mouth and eyes. 

 His body was also white and he wore a thin bandoleer with blue 

 yarn over his shoulder. He was standing by the side of the shrine 

 shaking a rattle of bones slowly up and down. After having shaken 

 the rattle four times he started off. "Wait," the Ah61i Katcina 

 said, "wait, we have heard some singing up here and want to see 

 who it is." "Yes," the other Katcina, which was the Aototo, re- 

 plied, "yes, I am not singing, but we are two of us here, and the 

 other one was singing. " By this time the Big-Hom Katcina came 

 from the west end of the mesa holding in his left hand a bow, and 

 having a quiver strung over his right shoulder. He had a green 

 mask with a big horn on the right side and an ear on the left. He 

 wore a nice kilt, nice ankle bands, and his body was painted up 

 nicely. When he arrived at the shrine he asked the Aototo: "Why 

 do you tarry here?" "Yes," the Aototo replied, "these are detain- 

 ing me. " "Why?" the Big-Hom Katcina asked. "We heard some- 



