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returned along the trail, marching; in single lile, with the load.s ui wood 

 ou their backs, stamping their feet as they came. They likewise shook 

 their rattles and occasionally turned and walked hackwaid. 



They lirst asseinl)led around each of tlie kiva hatchways jn llano, 

 singing and chaffing one another, and were sprinkled with meal by the 

 kiva chiefs. Proceeding onward to Sitcomovi, they went to the en- 

 trances of the kivas of this j)ueblo and were there sprinkled with meal 

 by the chiefs as they sang their curious songs, accompanying them 

 with a stainping of the feet and a rotating movement of the body. It 

 was after 1 oclock when they arrived at Walpi, for they halted a short 

 time at the neck of the mesa to arrange their loads. As they entered 

 the pueblo they advanced along the south street singing as they went. 



At the entrance to Tcivatokiva they stopped and told I'auwatiwa a 

 facetious story of their wood-gathering. lie sprinkled them with 

 meal, and they then went on to the dance court and set down their 

 bundles, all the time making a droll byplay. They then sejjarated into 

 parties of two or three members and visited the houses of several 

 women, with whom the.y left one or more bundles of wood. These 

 women had previously jirepared nakwakwocis, which they gave to the 

 clowns with a handful of meal. 



After all the wood had been distributed, with muc-li rollicking fuu, 

 several women gave them food, and the smnll parties of Tatcii'kti 

 resumed their songs and marched through the dance couit, where they 

 all assembled. One of them was a drummer, who sat in the middle of 

 the court, and the others danced about him in a circle, singing a Zuni 

 song. Pauwatiwa, Intiwa, Tcosra, and Soy(iko sprinkled them with 

 meal, and the tirstmentioued invited the women who had been given 

 wood to approach, which they did, sprinkling the individual Tatcii'ktis 

 with meal. Their masks were then harshly removed and thrust into a 

 bag, tied up in a bundle, and carried to the house of Wikyiitiwa. 

 INIost of the food which they had received was carried down into the 

 Alkiva, which was the assemblage place of the Tatcii'kti in this cere- 

 mony. 



In all the kivas the beans had sprouted and were now called hi'izrii 

 (angular), possibly so named from the angle formed by the cotyledons 

 with the stem. When they had grown somewhat higher they were 

 called wupahazrii (great or long, angular). 



January 2S — No ceremonials were observed ou this day. 



January 29 — This was called the first ceremonial day of the PowA- 

 muh. About 11 oclock lastnighttbe Natacka donned theirmasks in the 

 Alkiva, and the man who took the i)art of IIahaiwii(iti, the mother of 

 the Natiickas, put ou her <lisguise and took her long juniper bough. 

 HAliawe went uji the ladder, standing on it witli his shoulders just 

 above the hatchway, while the mother of the monsters stood at the 

 foot of the same in the room. Assuming a hollow falsetto voice, in 

 which the mother of the Nati'ickas always speaks, sh»^ announced that 



