A THEATRICAL PERFORMAN'CE AT WALPl 613 



tive names are totemistic, the same as those of clans now living 

 at either Walpi or at some other place from which the Katcinas 

 were derived. Katcinas are tutelary clan gods of the ancestral 

 type and when personated appear as both males and females. 



In many cases the Katcina is represented by no clan of the 

 same totemistic name now^ living in the pueblo. This has been 

 brought about in several ways, of which there may be mentioned : 

 (i) The clan has become extinct, while its Katcina has survived ; 

 (2) A Katcina has been purchased or borrowed from neighbor- 

 ing people ; (3) A Katcina mask has been invented by some 

 imaginative person who has seen an object which he thinks fit- 

 ting for a Katcina totem. 



A stud}'^ of a clan and the Katcina which bears the same 

 name will be instructive in the determination of their relation. 



There are several clans where this clan relation of the Kat- 

 cina still retains its primitive totemistic character, and at least 

 one w^here the names of both clan and Katcina are the same. 

 For instance, the members of the Tcakzvaina or Asa clans 

 claim that the Tcakzvaina Katcinas are their clan ancients, 

 and when they personate these clan ancients they represent the 

 following masked personages : ^ 



1. Tcatcakwaiiia taatnu Zkr«>^w«/««5, their uncle. 



2. " tatakti '* males (brothers). 



3. *< kokoiamu *' their elder sister. 



4. *' mamantil {ananas) " maids (sisters). 



5. '< yuaiml *' their mother. 



It wall be noticed that all these ancestral personages belong 

 to one and the same clan ; the mother, brothers {tatakti)^ sisters 

 (nianas) and uncle, but that the father is unrepresented. 



The most important fact, however, is that the name of the 

 Katcina is the same as that of the clan, viz, Tcakzvaina^ and 

 that men of this clan personate, in dramatic and ceremonial 

 performances, supernaturals of the same name as the clan 

 from which they claim to have descended. They do not intro- 

 duce a personation of the Tcakzvaina father because he is not 

 of their clan, and hence in a sacerdotal sense cannot be a 

 supernatural of their clan. 



'A good collection of pictures of these was made in 1900. These were 

 drawn by a Hopi artist. 



