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Vol. 24. Salem: July, Aug., Sept., 1892. Nos. 7, 8, 9. 



THE WA-WAC-KA-TCI-NA, A TUSAYAN FOOT 

 RACE. 



BY J. WALTER FEWKES. 



Among the customs of the Indians of Tusayan/ there 

 are none more suggestive from an ethnological standpoint 

 than the games and races of these people. In many of the 

 great nine days religious festivals, as the Snake Ceremony, 

 the Flute, and the Ld'-la-kon-t/i, races up the mesa trails 

 are introduced on the morning of the ninth day. These 

 races, which I have already described,^ have many resem- 

 blances to each other as pointed out elsewhere, and are 

 necessary parts of the ceremonials, which make up some 

 of the more important religious celebrations. 



iThe following observations were made while connected with the Hemenway Ex- 

 pedition in the summer of 1891. My the Indians of Tusayan I mean the acolents of 

 the northeastern part of Arizona, or those commonly called the "Mokis." 



^Descriptions of the ceremonial rites mentioned above will be found in the Jour- 

 nal of American Ethnology, and The American Anthropologist. (For Flute Cere- 

 mony, Journ. Am. Eth. and Arch. Vol. II, No.l; La' -Id-kon-ti, Am. Anthropologist, 

 April, 1892.) 



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