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PRELIMINARIES OF THE PAWIKKATCIN A. 



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rAWlKKATCINA 



The Pawikkatcina, wliicli I observed at Sitcomovi in 1892, liad cer- 

 tain differences from any abbreviated Katcina dance which I have yet 

 described, and illnstrated the ceremonial reception of tliese personages 

 after they had visited another ])uebh). A priest of Sitcomovi suggested 

 that his fellow villagers should send a delegation of young men to 

 Cipaulovi to return a dance with which they had previously been 

 honored by the latter pueblo. Accordingly the masks were painted and 

 the preliminary ceremonials took place in one of the Sitcomovi kivas, 



FiG.4:{ — Mask of Pn'nikkatriiia (frntit view). 



those who were to ])articii)ate in the ceremonial beginning their work 

 on the -oth of June. The visitors danced all day of the 27th at Cipaulovi, 

 rested on the 28th, and continued their dance on the 20th at Sitcomovi. 

 The ceremonials on their return at tlie trail aijproacliing Sitcomovi took 

 place on June 28th, an hour before sunset. 



This dance dirt'ered very little from that of other Katcinas, to which 

 attention has hitherto been directed.^ There were twenty-three Katci- 



* Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology, vol. ii. No. 1. 



