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clouds toward him with both hands, palms upward. Then bending 

 his arms at the elbows and turning his palms downward, he shoots 

 them repeatedly forward: "the clouds are coming here to the fields." 

 By a zigzag motion of hand and arm above his head he indicates 

 lightning. Holding his hand horizontal, palm down, he lowers it by 

 a succession of jerks: "rain falls"; then he makes horizontal motions 

 of drawing and sweeping: "the water from the irrigating ditches 

 runs all over the fields." Next he imitates a man hoeing, first on one 

 side and then on the other. Then he shows the corn growing 

 up . . . so high . . . now so high . . , marking successive heights 

 above the ground with his hand, as if showing a child's age; then the 

 male inflorescence, by holding up his hand with fingers and thumb 

 pointing upward in a circle. Lastly, the right forearm, with hand 

 pointing upward, is shot up perpendicularly several times, while the 

 left hand, held slightly above the level of the right elbow with palm 

 turned toward the right arm, is moved upward and Outward from it, 

 to represent the growth of the female inflorescence at the side of the 

 stalk. All this time the performer continues to dance, keeping on 

 the same ground or moving over a few yards onl3^ 



While the tcosa are dancing these motions, they mention corn, 

 wheat, melons, watermelons, chiles, peaches, apples, and all sorts of 

 edible plants. 



Corn Clans 



The Corn clan at San Juan and Santa Clara is called k'lDiiowa, at 

 Hano Ic' idii/itowa. Hodge ^ gives as names of (Jorn clans at various 

 pueblos: San Juan, Kun-tdoa; Santa Clara, KKu^-tdoa; Hano, Kulo^- 

 towa; Jemez, Kyunutsa-dsh; Pecos, KijumC^; Sia and San Felipe, 

 Yaka-lidno; Santa Ana, YakJ-Jmno; Cochiti, Ydk\i-hdnucli; Zufii 

 (Corn or Seed), Td'a-hwe. Fewkes^ gives Kolon as the Hano name of 

 the Hano Corn clan. Hodge ^ gives Ku^aii-tdoa as a Sweet Corn clan 

 at San Ildefonso. 



The Hopi have a Corn clan, Kau nyamu^ Kaii loinwu, one of the 

 Patki group, at Walpi and Mishongnovi, and a Young Corn clan at 

 Oraibi.* 



The Corn clan at Hano presides over corn and all edible plants; the 

 members think themselves bound to feed the people in time of scar, 

 city, to entertain strangers, and to interpret for them. The chief of 

 this clan makes the corn-meal "road "at ceremonies which concern 

 the whole village. At present the clan owns and repairs the estufa in 

 the plaza, munate'e^ and have named it sselxynoloMte' e, 'corn-silk heap 

 house' {sxlx, corn-silk; molO'ii, heap; te'e^ estufa). 



^ Amer. Anthr.,ix, p. 349, 1S96. 



-Tusayan Migration Traditions, Nineteenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 2, 1900, p. 615, 



3 Op. cit. 



< Fewkes, op. cit.; also Mindeleff, Localization of Tusayan Clans, in sam^ Report, p. 651, 



