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disabling them. The Oraibi had been so thoroughly surprised that 

 they got frightened and fled when the Wd,lpi rushed upon them. The 

 latter now chased the fleeing Oraibi and killed a great many. The 

 big dog also disabled and killed a number of them. Only a few 

 passed the rock mentioned above. On account of this battle, in 

 which that dog killed so many Oraibi, a dog is engraved on that rock 

 and it is called the dog mark (Pokvaita). 



This is the way chiefs often punished their children (people) when 

 they became "bewitched." That is one reason why there are so 

 very many ruins all over the country. Many people were killed in 

 that way because their chiefs became angry and invited some chief 

 or inhabitant from other villages to destroy their people. 



106. A KATCINA RACE CONTEST BETWEEN THE WALPI AND 



THE ORAIBI.' 



Haliksai! In Walpi the people were living, but at the place 

 where the old village stood before the people had moved on the mesa. 

 And in Oraibi the people were also living. The Walpi always had 

 races west of the village in the valley for practice. When they had 

 become strong, they said: "Let us go to Oraibi and race there, be- 

 cause they are not strong and nimble." One time they had a Kat- 

 cina race in Walpi again, as they used to have frequently. One of 

 the Oraibi youths who had a friend in Walpi went to visit his friend 

 on that day, though he had not heard about there being a race there. 

 As the Katcinas were coming towards evening his friend said to the 

 Oraibi youth, that he should stay all night and see the Katcinas, and 

 then go home in the morning. So the Oraibi youth remained for 

 the Katcina race. 



They did not come until towards evening. When they had 

 arrived on the plaza the Koyemsis challenged the young men of the 

 village to come and race with the Katcinas. The Oraibi youth en- 

 joyed seeing the race, but he was somewhat timid and afraid to 

 participate in the race. When the race was over the young m"en of 

 the village had long races yet down in the valley, but they said to 

 one another, that no one should tell the Oraibi youth that they in- 

 tended to go there and race with the Oraibi. In the evening, how- 

 ever, the friend of this young man told him that the Walpi had been 

 practicing and that they intended to come to Oraibi and race with 

 the Orafbi youths. He added that they should also practice in Oraibi 

 for this coming contest, and said that these Wdlpi"were braggarts 



' Told by KwdyBshva (Oraibi). 



