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TUSAYAN KATCINAS 



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it ill front of the Ziifiis, ami liiially all smoked tofjetber. Tliis was 



said to be a forinal act of iecei)tioii.' 



The reception cercinoiiy of the I'awikkateiiia.s wlieii they returned 



from Cipaulovi was as follows: At 4 p. m. i'auatiwa's father, a very 



old man, sat on the edge of the mesa looking 

 west and north toward Ci])anlovi. He ealled 

 my attention to a line of men t-oming along the 

 trail. When the line halted on the last rise 

 before the trail aseends to the top of the mesa 

 we went down to welcome theai. 



Each Kateina jdaced his helmet in one of two 

 parallel lines arranged along the trail, and in 

 fiont of the two lines he laid the sprnce bough 

 which he carried. Infrontof this pile of spruce 

 boughs an ear of corn was placed in the trail 

 not tar from the helmets. All the Katcinas then 

 marched around the line in a sinistral circuit, 

 sprinkling sacred meal upon the masks, corn, 

 and spruce boughs and throwing a pinch along 

 the trail in advance of the ear of corn. The 

 circuit around the line of helmets was sinistral, 

 as in all Hopi ceremonials. 



Nine old men then formed a circle at the left 

 of the corn and smoked, sitting in a squatting 

 posture.^ No one was allowed to go up the trail 



pi^ i ,-!,^ ^^^t^'-'^r^ before this ceremony was completed, and one 

 "^^""^ •"' ^^^>\ *_.— ^ ^^^ attempted to do so was warned back. A 

 short address of welcome was spoken by the 

 priests to the leader of the Katcinas, and at 

 sunset they put on their masks and marched to 

 the plaza of Sitcomovi. They first danced on 

 the southern, then on the eastern, and lastly 

 on the western sides of the plaza, omitting the 

 northern side. The priests sjirinkled the Ka- 

 tcinas with sacred meal, observing the sinistral 

 ceremonial circuit as they passed around the 

 line. A small spruce tree, upon which nak- 

 Wiikwocis were tied, had been placed near the 

 middle of the plaza. 



Fig. 47— Helmeta. ear of rom. and 

 Mpriice botiyh arrau^t-d for re- 

 ception ceremony. 



'When the inhabitants of another pueblo visit that in which a 

 sacred dance is taking place, it is customary for The hosts to enter- 

 tain by setting befori.' tiieni food, and it is no iineoniniou thing to see 

 visitors passing from house to house partaking of the pikami (mush) 

 and otlier delicacies. It is not unusual for the headmen of one 

 puebhi to send oihcial thanks to the people of another for their sa<;red dances and other etforta 

 for rain. In a memoir on the Snake dance I mention an instance where even the distant Havasujiai 

 Indians brought offerings from their home to Walpi (Journal of American Ethnology and Arch;Pol- 

 ogy, vol. IV). 



* I need not describe tlieir actions, as I have already done so for other Katciua dances (Journal of 

 American Ethnology and .\rchieology. vol. ll, No. 1.) 



