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aud placed the cones in two piles, but even tlien none of the girls suc- 

 ceeded in carrying it. No one was allowed a second trial. Finally 

 one youth, Macakwaptlwa, carried them around safely and won the 

 prize. He was closely followed around the pillar by the Tatcii'kti shak- 

 ing their rattles, singing and crying, "Don't fall, don't fall," and when 

 he laid them safely down in their original place all the Tatcii'kti fell 

 down as if dead. Intiwa then ran and obtained ashes from a cooking 

 pit and placed them on a private part of their bodies. Then all the 

 clowns got up and danced around with their usual pranks. 



A tray full of corn and other seeds which was set beside the cones 

 was obtained by tlie Tatcii'kti from Nakwaiyumsi, the chief iJriestess of 

 the Katcina clan. At the close of the ceremony Intiwa distributed 

 these seeds in small handiuls to all the women spectators, to be planted 

 the coming season. It was not learned that these seeds were conse- 

 crated by the priestess, but they were part of those planted in the 

 kivas on the night of the 21st. 



January 22^-Th% younger men brought sand from a mound' aud 

 threw it down in a pile at the east of the kiva, and each man, as he 

 came into the room with his basin, box, or other receptacle, filled it 

 with this sand. He then thickly sprinkled the surface of the sand 

 witli seeds of every kind. Some had several vessels which they thus 

 planted, aud the old wife of Soyoko gave her grandson a bag of large 

 white beans to plant for her.-* The basins were well watered, a hot fire 

 was kept in the kiva. and the hatch or entrance was entirely covered 

 with a straw mat to retain the heat in the chamber, making it a verita- 

 ble hothouse. 



Junuary 3i — Xo ceremonies occurred today, but constant tires were 

 maintained in the kivas, from the heat of which the beans soon sprouted. 

 It was u7ulerst()od that children must not be told that beans were grow- 

 ing in the kivas nor be allowed to look into the room. 



January 25 — The Tatcii'kti went out from the Alkiva this morning 

 for wood, making their way northward, past Wala and along the mesa 

 to the cedar grove. They returned at evening, but lett the wood they 

 had gathered at the gap.' There was no singing nor dancing in the 

 kivas during the night. 



January 20 — During the morning the Tatcii'kti went to Wala to 

 bring in the wood they had collected yesterday. Before their depar- 

 ture they covered their bodies with pinkish clay, put on an old kilt 

 (kwaca),^ blue leggings, and masks with knobs. Each carried an eagle- 

 tail feather in the left and a small gourd in the right hand. They 



' The mound from which it was obtained is close to the base of the foothills eastward from Walpi. 

 and all the sand for all the kivas was obtained from this particular mound. 



^During the testival the women clii) the hair of their children. Tht? hair is cut over the entire 

 cranium of the little hoys, but in the case of the girls .a fringe is left around the base of the head, 

 especially on each side, for the characteristic whorls worn by maidens. 



^ The gap iu the East mesa, known as Wala, whence the name of the pueblo of Walpi at the western 

 end of the same height. 



* Woman's blanket without decoration. 



