128 THE WA-WAC-KA-TCr-NA : 



winner of the Snake race is a marked person. The so- 

 called Snake race which occurs on the morning of the ninth 

 day of the Snake Antelope ceremony before dawn is tra- 

 ditional and like so many other ceremonial customs is said 

 to date back to the infancy of the people. Bourke in his 

 work on the Snake dance has called attention to ancient 

 races in Mexico up the Teocalli or pyramids and the fact 

 that the runners in a Snake race do not stop before they 

 arrive at the top of the mesa. The thought is a sugges- 

 tive one and will be considered elsewhere. 



The Wd-wdc-ka-tci-nd also occurs in certain proceed- 

 ings which take place on the afternoon of several of the 

 Kd-tci-nd dances. I have already elsewhere described 

 the antics of the Jd-tcuk-ti and certain Kd-tci-nds while 

 the sacred dances^ are taking place. These personages 

 endeavor in every way to amuse the spectators both in 

 the intervals between the dances and while the latter are 

 progressing. These antics consist of puns, inordinate 

 eating, indignities to each other and curious or grotesque 

 situations in which they are placed. I have recounted 

 some of these in my notice of the summer ceremonials and 

 have likewise witnessed the Wd-wdc- Kd-tci-nd in sacred 

 dances here performed by the Id-lciik-ti and others 

 dressed as Kd-Lci-nds who come in for that purpose. 

 These Rd-tci-nds were different from those taking part in 

 the sacred dance and were generally personified Apaches 

 or Navajos or certain phallic societies. This fact is sig- 

 nificant when taken in connection with that known from 

 the descriptions above where the Apache personification is 

 so little known. Although these Apache Rd-tci-nds are 

 not the only ones who take part in the exercises we are 



^SeG Hu-mis, Kutci-na, Mdlo-Kdtci'-nd, etc. (Journ. Amer. Eth. & Arch., Vol. il) 



