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these three people were the only ones in possession of the secret. On 

 the fourth day they had a series of dances. During the day the differ- 

 ent kind of Katcina were dancing at each dance, and leaving the village 

 when they had completed their performances. The Yayaponchatu 

 people performed the last dance. They were masked like the Hohe 

 Katcina of the present day, their bodies, however, being decorated 

 like certain personages that appear at the Soyal ceremonies at present, 

 taking from the kiva in which the ceremonies were performed certain 

 prayer-ofiferings, which they deposited at a large spring west of the 

 village. The Yayaponchatu were sprinkled with corn-meal the same 

 as all the other Katcinas, whereupon they performed their dance, and 

 while they were dancing they sang the following ominous song, 

 alluding to the judgment that was to befall them: 



Ahaha, Ihihi 

 Hiayiayiayhaaa 

 Hiayiayiayhaa 

 Pai ntivupi yepee. 

 Why, at last here 

 Uni uh kiyu 

 You your houses 

 Palaomawuy akwa 

 Red cloud with 

 Noomiltiqoo 

 When enveloped 

 Hakami yang 

 Somewhere over there 

 Pamoci conako 

 The mist through 

 N aiik wilmuy ionihiii 

 Carrying one another 

 Kiihkiihki nawitaha 

 Villages along 

 Ahaha, Ihihi. 



Some of the spectators, watching the dances from the house-tops, 

 when they heard the song became somewhat alarmed and began to 

 think and talk of the matter. Nobody, of course, fully understood the 

 meaning of the song and of the presence of these strange neighbors. 

 Four of these last named dancers carried certain prayer-ofiferings the 

 same as are now being deposited during the Soyal ceremony by the 

 aforesaid messengers. These prayer-ofiferings consisted of sacred meal 

 piled up in small trays. Into these trays are placed a number of little 



