2f)6 TUSAYAN KATCINAS (kth. annI". 



bi'.lt spiucc branches arc licld. A fox-skin depends I'roni the belt, and 

 turtle-sliell rattles on the leg are invariably part of a Katcina's costume. 

 Moccasins and heel l)ands ai'e prescribed and bodily de(;oration with 

 pij^ments is couinion, but none of the above are cliaraeteristic of special 

 kinds of Katcinas. The mask is in general the one distinctive char- 

 acteristic! of a dcifinite personification. 



sfoCAI.AKO 



The Shalako is one of the most important observances at Zufii, and is 

 partially described by Gushing in aa article on his life in Zuni.' An 

 exhaustive account, however, has never been jniblished. The Hopi 

 occasionally celebrate a Galako, which from its name and other reasons 

 is undoubtedly an incorporated modification of this ceremonial, as the 

 Tusayan legends distinctly state.^ The following i)ages give an outline 

 of the llopi presentation as a contribution to the comparative study of 

 Pueblo ritual. A complete account of the Shalako at Zuni is a great 

 desideratum before it is possible to undertake close comparisons. 



The presentation of Cillako is not an annual event at the East mesa 

 of Tusayan, but occurs after long intervals of time. Tiie parapher- 

 nalia are kept in a house in Sitcomovi and belong to the Badger clan. 

 The house in which they are deposited is the property of Koikaamii, 

 the daughter of ISIasiumtiwa's eldest sister, now deceased, and the 

 wind likewise belong to her by descent. 



The chiefs of all the gentes in Walpi and Sitcomovi, the chief of the 

 Katcinas, and one or two others from llano assembled in this house on 

 the IGth of July, 1893, and made a large number (over two hundred) 

 of piihos for use in the ceremonials to be described. 



Early on the morning of the next day the masks and effigies of 

 Siociilako were renovated and earned to the spring called Kwafiwaba 

 (sweet water), which is situated on the Zuhi trad southward from the 

 mesa. In a modern house owned by a Sitcomovi family ' at this spring 

 the masks were repainted and the hoops which were used to make a 

 framework for the bodies were set arouiul with eagle feathers. 



The effigies which were used in personifications were made up of 

 masks or helmets of the ordinary size for the heads and a crinoline-like^ 

 framework of willow hoops for the bodies. These masks were made 

 from narrow shreds of leaves of the agave ])laited together diagonally, 

 and this plaited frame was covered with a painted buckskin upon 

 which the symbolism of the Siociilako was delineated. The projecting 

 beak of the face had a movable under jaw, which was hinged and 

 manii)ulated with a string. The helmet was attached to a stafif form- 

 ing a backbone, 3.i feet long, by which it was carried. The series of 



> "AilvL-nturea in Zinii," Century Magazine, vol. xxv, p. 507 et seq. 



2 Several i-eri'iiinnials are derived from Ziiui. while nthers are i)eculiar to Tusayan. The .symbolism of 

 tlie Sincalalio and tin- llopi Calako is ilitVcrent. No girls (miuas) were represented in the Slocilako. 



^All the women and ehildren of this family h.id been moved to the mesa a few ilavs before. 



^Compare the crinoline hoops of the effigies of Paliiliikondh (Journal of American Folk-lore, Octo- 

 ber-December, 1893) . 



