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At midday food was passed down into the kiva, but before partaking 

 of it one of tlie priests took a pinch of eacli kind of food (dunopna) 

 and went with it to a cleft in the mesa on the north side of Sitcomovi. 

 He there deposited it with a paho, a pinch of each kind of iiigment 

 used iu paiutiug the paraphernalia, a little tobacco/ but no sacred 



Fig. 45 — Mask of Pawikkatcinaraana. 



meal. This was au oftering', it was said, to the Grand 

 Cauyou of the Colorado sipapu. He then went to the 

 southern side of the mesa and placed lu a similar cleft 

 a nakwiikwoci, said to be an offering to Masauwfih. 



At sunrise on the 29th two offerings were deposited, 

 and each of the tweuty-three Katcinas placed his nak- 

 wakwoci iu a shrine. 



Ceremonials attending visits of people from adjacent 

 or remote pueblos are simple but interesting. The fol- 

 lowing reception ceremony of visitors from a distant 

 pueblo not of their own people was noted: In the prog- 

 ress of the summer dances of Walpi iu 1802 I observed 

 the ceremonial reception of several Zuuis who came over 

 to assist in the Humiskatcina. They were fornuxlly 

 "received" in the Wikwaliobi kiva by Intiwa,' Kopeli, 

 Honyi, Pauatiwa, and Lesma. Tntiwa gave their head- 

 man a twig of spruce, to which Lesma tied lour nakwa- 

 kwocis.^ Intiwa sprinkled it with sacred meal and laid 



Fig. 46— Staff of 

 Pawikkatcina. 



^Tlie first reference which I have found to the use of tobacco in the ceremonial amoke by the 

 American Indians is by Monardes. This interesting description of tobacco and its uses, accom- 

 panied witli a figure of the plant, is one of the most complete for its date (1:'90) which I liave seen. 



-tntiwa is Eatcina moOwi. chief of the Katcinas; Kopeli, chief of the Snakes: B6uyi, hered- 

 itary Snake- Antelope chief; Wiki, chief of the Snake-Antelopea ; Pauatiwa, chief of warriors ; L^sma, 

 Bear chief. 



^See Journal of American Ethnology and Archceology, vol. n. Xo. 1. 



