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body singing here," the Ah61i replied, "and we came up here to see 

 who it was, and so it is you. Now, what do you think," he con- 

 tinued, "let us go down all together and then we shall possess the 

 people," and he told the Katcinas about what they had obtained 

 and were going to do. So the two Katcinas were willing and they 

 prepared to go down. 



The Aototo took the lead and was followed by the Ah61i Katcina, 

 and the mana, the Big-Horn Katcina coming last. • This way they 

 went down a part of the way at a place west of the present village of 

 Hano. Here they made a baho shrine (bah6ki), erecting some stones 

 as a mark between the villages of Hano and Sitc6movi. This shrine 

 is still there. They then went farther down to the present gap north 

 of Hdno to the large shrine with the twisted stone which is still there. 

 Here they met somebody coming out of that shrine and then going up 

 and down there. It was somebody dangerous (nukpana), who had 

 large protruding eyes and a big mouth in his mask, and many rattles 

 around his body and along the front part of his legs. His arms were 

 painted white, his body red. Around his shoulders he had a small 

 blanket of rabbit skin. On his feet; he had old, torn, black mocca- 

 sins. In his right hand he had a large knife, in his left hand a crook, 

 to which a number of m6sililis were attached.' It was the Cooyoko, 

 who used to kill and devour children there. When the Katcinas saw 

 him they said to him: "Do not trouble us, we are going to possess 

 these people here. We are going home now. You can destroy the 

 bad ones, since you are bad anyway, but do not trouble us. " 



Heretipon they descended and went to their home. When they 

 arrived at the house of the Ah61i, which was a very beautiful house, 

 the Ahdli said: "Now, here we are, and you stay with us. It is not 

 good down here it does not rain, but up there where you are it is 

 better. When it will rain here you can go back, but we want to help 

 the people first. So to-morrow morning we shall go to the fields and 

 plant for the people. " During the night they did not sleep but they 

 were singing all night, on their masks, which they had standing in a 

 row in the north side of the room. When the yellow dawn was ap- 

 pearing before sunrise it commenced to rain, and it rained hard. 

 Towards noon the Katcinas dressed up, putting on their masks, went 

 out, crossed the mesa, came to the fields south of the mesa, and 

 there they beheld large fields of corn, patches filled with melons, 

 watermelons, and squashes. Everything was growing beautifully. 



' M6sililis, cone-shaped shells from one to two inches long, which are tied by means of thin 

 buckskin thongs to sticks that are from six to eight inches long and bent at one end. These rat- 

 tles are highly prized by the Hopi and are used in various ceremonies, but, chiefly in those of the 

 Piute Fraternities. Shells of this kind are among the objects found in the ruins of Tusayan. 



