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tciim-o-vi on May 17th. Although different Kd-tci-nas ap- 

 peared, the events of the race in both are the same. The 

 Wd-wdc-kd-tci-nd is more after the nature of a secular 

 than a religious observance ; although from its name and 

 the personages who take part, we may regard it as connected 

 with ceremonial observances. 



The Wd-wdc-kd-tci-nd is a race in which the Pai-d-kya- 

 muh, 1 7a-/c&-ttand certain Kd-tci-nds challenge the fleet- 

 footed inhabitants of the pueblos to run for prizes. The 

 winnings were always taken by the civilians, but if caught 

 by the Kd-tci-nd, he pays the penalty by light or severe 

 strokes of the yucca whips carried for that purpose by the 

 opponents. 



The two Wd-wdc-kd-tci-nds occurred within five days ot 

 each other, just before the first Hu-mis-kd-tci-nd, a sacred 

 dance which was celebrated in several of the villages. 



The first celebration of the Wd-wdc-kd-tci-nd was at Tewa 

 and the participants prepared themselves in the recess of 

 the cliff ou the main trail about fifty feet below the edge 

 of the mesa. They marched up to the plaza about sun- 

 set, bearing the prizes done up in blankets on their backs. 



There were ten Pai-d-kya-rnuh (gluttons), and six Kd- 

 tci-nds. The former wore on their heads long horns or- 

 namented with corn husks, and girt with black stripes. 

 Similar black stripes were painted on their body, face and 



!The reader will find a discussion of the different "priesthood fraternities" in the 

 Tusayan villages, in my article on "Summer Ceremonials," Journal of American 

 Ethnology and Archceology, Vol.11, No. I. The Pai a-kya-m&h are clown glut- 

 tons who made fun during some of the sacred dances, and were from Te-wa. They 

 belong to the priesthood called Tcuku-wymp-ki-ya, one of whom carries in his belt a 

 Tcu-ku-ma-na, or stuffed water- wren. The Ta-tcuk-ti are also Tcu-ku-wy'mp-ki-ya 

 but they wear cloth noseless helmets with knobs or sausage like appendages, great 

 goggle eyes and protuberant mouth. Still another kind of Tcu-ku-wy'mp-ki yas, not 

 represented in the Wa-wac which I have here described, has yellow painted faces 

 with black bars as elsewhere described. 



