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she was ready to visit the cbildren. ILihaAve shouted his replies to 

 her in a voice audible through the pueblo that the children were all 

 asleep and that she had better put off her visit to them until the morn- 

 ing. A dialogue, the real object of which was to announce to the 

 children that the Natiickas had arrived, was maintained for tive min- 

 utes, and Hahawe then went down the ladder; the Natackas and 

 Hahaiwiiqti took off their masks and all laid down to sleep. 



About i-SO p. m. the Tewa personification of Hahaiwiiqti, accoln- 

 pauied by one ^Natacka, came to Walj^i and went to Kokyanwii'qti's 

 and Kele's houses, giving to the little girls a few seeds and a snare of 

 yucca shred. They dressed the Walpi Hahaiwiiqti, Natackas, and 

 Soyokmana in the Alkiva at 4.25 p. m. Haliaiwiiqti carried, besides a 

 whitened gourd ladle, a basket (poota) containing two ears of corn, 

 and two boiled hoyiani, some squash seeds, and a small bundle of 

 sticks, of which she gave one to each little girl, who will later redeem 

 it by presenting Hahaiwiiqti with some hotomni. She gave each little 

 boy, who will also redeem it with some kinds of game, a ^hred of yucca 

 looped to a stick at the butt end (a rude snare). Natiicka and Naamu 

 wore cloth shirts, trousers and buckskin leggings, and two buckskins 

 hung as loose mantles over their shoulders. The former carried a 

 tortoise-shell rattle on his right leg, and had a bow and arrows in his 

 left hand and an arrow in the right. Soyokmana had the hair smeared 

 with white clay. She wore a loose mantle and whistled as Natacka 

 hooted. Hahaiwiiqti wore a fox-skin around the neck. The hands of 

 all were whitened. Soyokmana wore a hideous black ma>k and was 

 dressed in dilapidated clothing. She had a large knife in her left hand 

 and a crook in her right (plates cv and Cvi). 



The Natiicka helmets had turkey-tail feathers' closely radiating ver- 

 tically at the crown, and they wore a cloth shirt and trousers, with belt 

 with silver disks. Each had buckskin leggings and wore a fox-skin 

 around the base of the mask; two large buckskins hung as mantles 

 over the right shoulder. He carried a bow and arrows-* in the left hand 

 and with his right hand he received the food and i)laced it in the 

 tozruki^ slung over his right shoulder. Soyokmana was personified 

 by a lad of 12 years, wearing a woman's blanket (kwaca) and a buck- 

 skin mantle. He had a uakwakwoci, stained red, tied to the scalp lock. 



A similar group, all costumed identically, was prepared in each of 

 the three villages. The group of Tewa personifications went to every 

 house in that pueblo and then to the houses in other villages where 

 men from Hano have married. The groups of the other towns go first 

 to the houses of their own pueblo and then to the houses in the other 

 villages Mliere men have transferred themselves by marriage. 



When the Walpi gi-oup had finished their exercises at Hano and Si- 

 tcomovi they went back to Walpi and proceeded along the front side of 



• At the tip of the lowest tail feather ou each side a nakwdkwoci stained with cuta was li uug. 

 ' Natai-ka carried a handsaw in the left hand. 

 3 Bandoleer. 



