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year out the day after Pautiwa comes in the night, that is on the 

 sixth day of the fire taboo. Then the kiva chief selects the four men 

 from among the men of his kiva. He goes to the house of the first 

 man and the man says to him, 'Be seated. Why have you come?' 

 Then he answers, 'Yes, I have come. I have thought of this house. 

 I have thought in my mind that our people want us to send out the 

 old year.' Then the man answers, 'I can not say no. I shall be 

 the one.' Then the kiva chief goes to the house of another man and 

 tells him the same tiling, and no one can refuse, because the priests 

 have chosen them. 



"Then right away the men's wives begin to grind to take food to 

 the members of the Great Fire Society, who sing for the New Year. 

 Then on the fourth night the katcina bow priest helps them to dress. 

 When evening comes Citsuka and Kwelele come in. 



(At about this time the Saiyafi'a impersonators go to he'iwa kiva. 

 They are unmasked and wrapped in blanl^ets that conceal their 

 costume. The masks have already been taken to the kiva, possibly 

 by the katcina bow priest. R. L. B., 1928.) 



" Late at night the Saiyah'a put on their masks and come to the 

 kiva. They dance for the old year. After they have danced a 

 little while, the katcina bow priest goes to their houses and brings in 

 the baskets of corn that their wives have groiuid. He goes to one 

 house and comes back and then he goes to another house and brings 

 a basket from each. Then he pours water into a bowl and puts the 

 meal in it and mixes it '* and gives it to the people who are there. 

 In the kiva are all the priests, the keeper of the sacred fire,'' the 

 Great Fire Society (also men of he'iwa kiva and men of the Dogwood 

 and Sun clans. R. L. B.) All these people drink. 



"Just before daylight the Sayafi'a go to all the kivas saying 'puhn, 

 puhu, puhu, puhu.' No one is in the kivas, but they think the old 

 3'ear is in there and they want to hurry him out. Then they come 

 back to he'iwa kiva and wait for dawn. ^Vhen they feel the wind 

 from the east, they make the New Year fire in the kiva. Blood-pud- 

 ding-man '* makes the fire with a fire drill, and Citsuka hghts his 

 torch. Kwelele carries out the ashes and the four Puhu'atina-kwe 

 carry out the sweepings from the kiva. They say they are carrying 

 out the com. Then they go out to the east, to take the old year out 

 and meet the new year. They go out of the village to the place called 

 "WTiere-the-pumpkin-stands, and leave the fire there. Then they all 

 come back and dance in the kiva. After they are finished, Citsuka 

 and Kwelele wait for Pautiwa, and the Puhu'atiaa^kwe go off with the 



1* This drink is called ti-uEina'we and is considered a great delicacy. The corn is first boiled, then dried 

 and roasted and ground into very fine meal. 



'■ Tsupal'ilona, "the one who has the blood pudding," see p. 959. 



" According to more reliable authority, the heati of the Great Fire Society makes the fire and lights 

 Kwelele's torch. Citsuka does not have a torch. 



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