FEWKEs] FEATURES OF ABBREVIATED KATCINAS 293 



name and the accoiupaiiyiug symbolisiu a study of the dolls will give 

 as good au idea as can yet be obtained from published articles.' 



The participants in the abbreviated Katcinas may be divided inlo 

 two groups: (1) The Katcinas, male and female, with related masked 

 personages, and the priests who pray to them and s[)rinkle meal upon 

 them, and (2) the accompanying clowns and masked or other persons 

 M'ho participate iu their antics and presentation. The details of the 

 jiroceedings of the second or possibly subordinate group vary iu 

 different dances more than those of the first. 



The particii)aiits of the first group are: 



1. Masked personages (always men) called Katcinas. 



2. Masked men, personifying women, called Katcinamanas. 



3. One or more masked persons, who vary in symbolic characters in 

 different Katcinas. These are often absent. 



4. I'riests (unmasked), directors of the dance, who sprinkle the 

 Katcinas with sacred meal. These priests are vehicles of prayers to the 

 Katcinas and masked participants, and are generally few in number. 



The presentation is accompanied with a feast'' (generally at noon) 

 limited to Katcinas and Katcinamanas. The Katciuas dance iu line, 

 sing, distribute gifts, but never utter any continuous sentence or prayer. 

 The Katcinamanas dance in line facing the Katcinas, or kneel iu front 

 of the same, accompanying their songs with a rasping noise made by 

 rubbing a scapula over a notched stick. Ordinarily their mask is 

 identical iu all Katcinas of the abbreviated form, and they generally 

 have their hair iu two whorls on the sides of the head, and wear white 

 blankets and other feminine apparel. The second group of personifi- 

 cations are the Tcukiiwympkias (Tatcii'kti, knob-head priests; 

 Tcii'ckiitu, gluttons; or Paiakaiamu, horned clowus). Their represen- 

 tation consists of a series of antics and dramatizations, story telling, 

 gluttony, obscene gestures or bawdy remarks, and flogging aud other 

 indignities heaped upon each other or upon accompanying masked 

 persons. These representations aud the personifications who carry ou 

 their portion of the observance vary iu different reproductious of the 

 same drama. 



The Tcukuwympkia do not dance or sing with the Katcinas, but 

 sprinkle them with meal and pray to them. While au essential fea- 

 ture iu certain abbreviated Katciuas, they are not always present, 

 and their exhibition has many secular or temi)oral characteristics or 

 innovations more or less dependent ou the invention of the partici- 

 pants. The masked persons who assist them are representatives of 

 semimythologic beings, called Piptuka, U'tci (Apache), Tacab (]S"a- 

 vaho), Kese, and others. A description of the various modifications 

 of their performances would mean special account of each presentation 



'Dolls of the Tusayan Indiana, op. eit. 



2The fond is lironglit to each by wives, daughters, or other women ot his household. This feast 

 takes place iu the open air, not as at Zuiii iu tlie kivas. 



