624 FEWKES 



March 2. Totohfi. Many masked men were seen through- 

 out the day in the three East Mesa pueblos. Early in the after- 

 noon there were noticed in Hano three Oe Katcinas, each with a 

 chevron mark on each cheek, and one Wupamoiv or Big High 

 Sky god bearing a sun mask/ and held by a Mudhead priest 

 by a rope tied about his loins. In Walpi shortly afterward, 

 two small boys dressed and masked to represent Masauuhs 

 went from one kiva to another, standing on the hatch and beat- 

 ing the ladder with bundles of sticks. 



Late in the afternoon the chief kiva of Hano sent the follow- 

 ing delegation of masked men to all the kivas on the East Mesa : 

 Mucaias, Buffalo ; Wtipamow, Big High Sky god (Sun) ; 

 Honau^ Bear; Ahote ; Citoto ; Tcanau; Wtikokoi ; many 

 * mudheads.' They went from one kiva entrance to another, 

 holding conversations with the kiva chiefs and in various ways 

 amusing the spectators. 



About sundown the men of the two Walpi kivas carried their 

 snake effigies to the main spring of the pueblo, the home of 

 Palulukon, called Tawapa, Sun Spring, where they performed 

 ceremonies, while the men of Hano took their serpent effigies to 

 a spring called Monwiva, sacred to their great snake. The 

 six acts in the kivas were performed directly after the return of 

 the men with the effigies from these springs. 



During the festival all actors abstain from salt and meat 

 and do not sleep with their wives, a tabu which is rigidly 

 observed especially on the day preceding the exhibition in the 

 kiva. 



On several of the days of this festival there are foot races 

 along the water courses in the valley, during which the naked 

 racers kick small stone nodules in a sinistral circuit around the 

 mesa. This was a prayer for streams full of water. 



The events which occurred when the effigies were taken to 

 the springs were wholly ceremonial, and not dramatic. During 

 the day previous to this event all men of prominence, especially 

 chiefs of clans, brought feathered strings to the kivas, and 



' Tlie symbols of this mask resemble those of Tawa (sun) disks, and those of 

 the masks of Ahula, Ahi'ilaiii and Wiirvii yonio, showing that the latter are the 

 same sun gods probably under different clan names. 



