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bib; carries a whip in each hand. This mask is almost exactly like 
that of Saiyatac. 
KWIRAINA SOCIETY 
Dyda’nyi (deer). (Fig. 30.) Line dancer; 14 masks. Real deer 
horns and ears on top of mask; the ears are red on the inside, green 
outside; blue-green face; red and yellow segmented snakes; red band 
across top of face, above which are white clouds; green protruding 
snout with a black tip; spruce collar. 
Wajioca (duck). (Fig. 31.) Line dancer; 14 masks. Sea-blue face 
with blue-green snout; snake has red head and alternating red and 
yellow body segments; a prayerstick is among the eagle and parrot 
feathers on the right side of his head; at the base of these feathers is 
a bunch of sparrow hawk (tcitika) feathers, the “badge” of Kwiraina; 
spruce on top of head and spruce collar. 
Mina (salt). There are 6 masks. ‘They don’t come very often, 
only when the land is very dry; the last time they came was in 1923 
and they had not come for years before that.”” The masks are entirely 
white, with icicles on their headdress; “they bring hail and ice.’ 
They do not dance; they merely walk about the pueblo while they 
sing one song, after which they retire. No sketch. 
Kotcininako. Ten or twelve, who sometimes accompany the Deer 
or Duck line dancers. 
Mo-kaite (mountain lion, Felis concolor). (Fig. 31.) Side dancers; 
2masks. I have two sketches. No. 1 has a blue-green face; yellow 
snout with a red lightning design; unspun cotton on top of mask with 
a bunch of parrot body feathers in center; a string runs from the two 
eagle wing feathers; at the back of the head are two parrot feathers 
and a bunch of owl feathers; wildcat pelt collar; carries soap-weed 
whip in right hand, bow and arrow in left. 
Mokaite No. 2 has a yellow face with a red design, said to be a 
“hand” on the side; unspun cotton on top of head, eagle and owl 
feathers at back of head; the “horn” protruding from the forehead has 
a red lightning design; carries a soapweed whip in right hand, bow and 
arrow in left. 
Bear or Lion katsina, or both, accompany Deer and Duck line dan- 
cers; they adjust their costumes as needed, and keep people from 
coming too close to them. 
Hopopo and Wikori. These are special katsina. They were cre- 
ated in the first of the underworlds, the Yellow world (see ‘‘Cos- 
mology”). They are the patrons, or “fathers,” of the Kwiraina 
society. Their “home” is northeast of Sia, and when they appear in 
a dance they always enter the pueblo from this direction ‘fon Hopopo 
and Wikor: trails.” They do not come very often; it is up to Tia- 
