124 THE WA-WAC-EA-TCI-NA : 



A single personage wearing the Ley' -to-to-be ? mask also 

 appeared in the same Wa-wac. The helmet was painted 

 black with a red band across the eyes. A boy called Td- 

 cd'-be, Navajo, wearing a mask not unlike that of Ute-ce-e 

 appeared in the same Wa'-wdc, but he took a very subor- 

 dinate part in the race. 



TA-TCUK-TI. 1 



The largest number of participants in the Wd-wdc-kd- 

 tci-nd at Si-tciim-o- vi were the Td-tcuk-ti^ or knobbed-headed 

 priests who play an important part as clowns in the Tusa- 

 yan sacred dances. The Td-tcuk-ti were naked with the 

 exception of a simple cloth about their loins and the hel- 

 met coverings of their heads. Appended to the sides of 

 the close-fitting cloth helmets there were several knobs 

 filled with seeds, or long sausage-like appendages hanging 

 down the cheeks from either side. 



The bodies of the knobbed-heacled priests were marked 

 with lines drawn by the fingers on the mud with which 

 they are smeared and their feet are without moccasins. 

 Td-tcuk-ti ordinarily stood (PI. i, fig. 3) in line back of 

 the piles of prizes spread out on the blanket on the ground 

 and armed with a yucca leaf. While awaiting the begin- 

 ning of the race this leaf is closely folded in the hand and 

 it is only when they have overtaken their contestants that 

 this whip is unfolded and used in striking the legs and 

 back of the luckless individuals whom they overtake in 

 the race. 



PAI-A-KY A-MUH . 



These personages have already been described and fig- 

 ured elsewhere. 3 They wear a closely fitting skull cap upon 



'Sometimes the first syllable is reduplicated, Ta-ta-tcuk-ti. 



2 From Ta -tci, a knob, referring to the knobbed helmets which they wear, or from 

 a verb meaning to leap up or jump. 

 3 Journal of Am. Ethnology and Archaeology, Vol. II, No. 1. 



