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TUSAYAN KATflNAS 



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and would vary iTi details for each exliihitioii, but except iii a very 

 geiieral way these variations are quite unimportant in the study of the 

 characteristics of the abbreviated Katcinas. The following are some 

 of the episodes introduced : 



1. Inordinate eating- and begging, urine drinking, gluttony, and 

 obscenity. 



2. Flogging of one another, stripping off breochcloths, drenching 

 with foul water, ribald remarks to spectators, and comical episodes 

 with donkevs and do"s. 



Fir.. 40— Till- Afiakntiiu;!. 



3. Story telling for pieces of corn under severe Hogging by masked 

 persons, races, smearing one another with blood, urinating upon one 

 another, tormenting with cactus branches, etc. 



Tlie Katcina dance ordinardy lasts from daybreak to sunset, with 

 intermissions, during which the participants unmask under an over- 

 banging cliff on the southern side of the mesa. Here likewise they 

 have their feast at midday. The dances in the forenoon are sliinly 

 attended by s])ectators, but in the afternoon all the terraces and 

 roofs of the houses surrounding the plaza' in which the pillar mound 

 is situated are occupied by natives and visitors. The line of Katcinas 

 is led by an uncostumed chief, who sjirinkles meal on the ground as he 

 enters and leaves the dance court, and who from time to time shouts to 



' This is the only plaza large enough for a long line of dancers, and hence is ordinarily used. 



