116 THE WA-WAC-KA-TCI-NA : 



take place at the time of the great ceremonials as the Snake, 

 La'-la-hon-Vi, and Flute, that they merit a special descrip- 

 tion. Moreover as several Kd-tci-nds,^ which I have not 

 seen in any other celebration, take part in these, and as 

 the name given it at least implies a mythological relation- 

 ship, it seems appropriate as a contribution to our knowl- 

 edge of the mythology of these Indians to devote a special 

 article to a descripticm of it. 



The following pages contain an account of the main 

 events in the Wd-ivdc-Tcd-tci-ndw'iih a description of some 

 of the participants. The author finds it necessary as a 

 first step in the interpretation of the complicated mythol- 

 ogy of the Tusaynn Indians to preface with similar simple 

 descriptions an article which he has in preparation in the 

 distant future, explanatory of all the important ceremonies. 



This account of the /la-^ci-^ia foot races therefore, which 

 is one of a series,^ must be used in a comparative way 

 with others already published or to follow. He is not pre- 

 pared, before more data have been collected to offer a sat- 

 isfactory explanation of the various events which are 

 described. 



The first Wd-wdc-kd-icl-nd which was observed took 

 place in Ha-no (Te-wa) on May 11th; the second in Si- 



iThe term Kdtci-nd is applied to a great number of mj thologic and semi-mytho- 

 logic personages although more strictly confined to certain masked dances wliich 

 appear in the public celebration of many ceremonials. The different kinds of Kti- 

 tci-nus are very numerous and their relations to each other in the Hopi Pantheon 

 very complex. The majority of the Kd-tcinds bear names of animals, as Kweywe 

 (woll), Ko-ho-ne (chipmunk), Ka-vd-ho Spanish (horse), Ho-ndn-i, (bear), but 

 names of deities as Dd'-wd (sun), Omow-tih (clouds), and otliers, may also have 

 the same designation. This complicated subject will be discussed later, and it is 

 only necessary here to call attention to the fact that certain public dances like the 

 participants are called Kdtcinds, from the presence of personifications of these 

 beings. A modified term sometimes written "Cd-chi-nu" is widespread among 

 the New Mexican pueblos, and is sometimes applied to a sacred dance among cer- 

 tain tribes. 



2See Journal of American Ethnology and Archmology, American Folklore Journal 

 and American Anthropologist. 



