854 ZXJNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



"Sometimes for good luck Miey will send in the youngest child in 

 the house and tell her to go in and feed the grandfathers. Then she 

 will take the food and go in and say: 



" 'Grandfathers, hero, eat. May I become a woman, and may my 

 older brothers and older sisters reach young manhood and young 

 womanhood.' 



"If the mask is not properly fed, he will send mice into the com 

 room to eat all the corn. Sometimes if he is not fed he will eat 

 himself around the edges so that everj^one will know that he has 

 been neglected." 



At the end of the Ca'lako festival is a ceremony called Ko'ame at 

 which all masks are honored. A native account of this ceremony 

 follows. 



"On the day before Ko'a-ne'* every man who has a mask works on 

 feathers for his mask and also for the Koyemci, and he has them all 

 ready for the morning. That day one man from each clan takes the 

 feathers to the Koyemci. If it is a poor clan only one man will go, 

 but as many as wish may go, and each one will bring a gift for the 

 Koyemci with the feathers. 



"On the morning of Ko'ane a set of dancers from each Idva dances 

 in all the houses where they have held Ca'lako and when they have 

 finished dancing in the houses they go to the plaza and dance four 

 times in the plaza. The fourth time they come out they have with 

 them rolls of paper bread which has been sent to them by the women 

 of the Ca'lako houses. Then when they have finished dancing they 

 go out to the east Math their rolls of paper bread and they carry with 

 them the feathers which they have gotten in the Ca'lako houses. 

 Hemwcikwe and Tcakwena and Wotemla are dancing, but there are 

 others like Ko'kokci who are not dancing. 



"After the dancers have finished dancing in the houses and have 

 gone to the plaza every man who has a mask in his house takes his 

 mask and the prayer sticks that he made the day before and wraps 

 them in his blanket. If a man has more than one mask he takes 

 all of them and a prayer stick for each mask. Then each man goes 

 to the house where his kiva has had Ca'lako to get food for his masks. 

 Before they come in the women of the Ca'lako houses set out two 

 bowls of water and two ears of corn. ^\Tien they have all come in 

 the head of the house calls the men to come and have water sprinkled 



» "The katcinas go away." The concluding ceremony of the Ca'lako festival. See p. 702. 



