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man had been killed. "Why, he has been killed," they called back, 

 "let us follow them and let us kill them." Hereupon the men and 

 the youths of the village ran after their bows and arrows, thrust them 

 behind their belts and rushed after the Katcinas.' Those who could 

 get some ponies got them and followed the Katcinas on their ponies. 



The Katcinas had in the meanwhile descended the mesa and were 

 running westward, one after the other, along the trail. When they 

 were about south of Walpi they were beginning to become tired and 

 ran somewhat slower. At a bluff called HuKdtwi, the H6msona fell 

 somewhat behind. By this time those men of Aoatovi who were 

 on horseback had overtaken them and at once surrounded the 

 Hdmsona. They killed the Katcina, shooting him with their bows 

 and arrows. Hereupon they followed the others, and at the foot of 

 the incline they overtook the ChiHtoshmoktaka, whom they also 

 surrounded and killed. There were now two left. In the valley 

 south-east of Mishongnovi they overtook the Angwushngontaka, sur- 

 rounded and killed him. There was only the Silcapku left now. 

 When he had arrived at the wash he jerked off his mask, looked back 

 and saw that his pursuers were not very far away. He discharmed 

 himself by swinging the mask in front of himself four times. He then 

 placed the mask on top of a brush, jumped into the wash and ran out 

 of it on the other side. The two chiefs had arranged that those of 

 the Katcinas who would go through the wash before the pursuers 

 should overtake them should not be killed, but the Shong6pavi chief 

 had agreed, that if they overtook any of his four Katcinas before 

 they had crossed the wash, they might kill them, and the Aofitovi 

 chief had instructed his people to that effect before they left the 

 village to pursue the Katcinas. Hence, when the pursuers came 

 upon the mask that was hanging on the brush, they said: "He has 

 crossed the wash, we shall not follow him, but we shall return. " 

 Hereupon they returned. 



When the Katcina arrived at Shong6pavi the chief said: "Thanks, 

 that you have come back, that you have been left. I shall see you 

 living here. Be it then that way, that the others have been killed. " 

 Hereupon the chief of Aoatovi was thinking over this matter, and 

 during the night he again went to Shong6pavi, just as the sorcerers 

 (Pdpwaktu) always go about in the night. The Shong6pavi chief was 

 expecting him and, while he had retired, he had not gone to sleep. He 

 at once got up, built a fire, and again asked: "What have you come 

 for?" "Yes," the Aodtovi chief replied, "I have forfeited my peo- 

 ple. We have killed your Katcinas so I give you my people, I give 

 you all my people. In four days you come and get my people. The 



