BUNZELl THE WINTER SOLSTICE 923 



they said, "Now, you just go to the edge and jump off and the wind 

 will take you dowTi to where they are having the give-away dance." 

 Then they stood up and went to the edge, and then right over they 

 went, the poor coyotes! There they went down and they burst open. 

 "Oh, oh, oh, oh!" they said, and they died. 



There below were the SayaK'a, hunting rabbits. They came there 

 to where the poor coyotes were lying. One came up to them, and he 

 called the others. "^V^lo is it that killed these?" he said. Their fur 

 was so pretty that the Sayah'a said, " Never mind about hunting rab- 

 bits. There is not much to eat on them, and their skins are not big 

 enough to wear. Let us skin these." So the four Sayati'a skinned 

 the coyotes. There were just four of them. Then the one who had 

 found them finished first, and he took the skin off and pulled it out 

 and hung it on a tree to dry a little. Then he took it and tried it 

 on his neck and tied it in back. The others looked at him and 

 said, "Oh, how nice you look now! It is much better that way. 

 We will all wear it that way now." Then all of them took their 

 fur and fixed their necks that way. That is how they came to wear 

 the coyotes' skins on their necks. Before that they had come to 

 Itiwana without any fur, but Ahayute gave them these skins. They 

 told the story about the give-away dance, and so they came to wear 

 fur around their necks. 



ClTSU^A AND KWELELE 

 (Plate 21, c) (Plate 21, d) 



Coshime.- — "Citsuka is the white god (koko Rohana). He is dressed 

 all in white. His mask is white. His nose is lightning, and over his 

 ears is painted more lightning. On his face is painted hepakin'e (a 

 circular design of different colors, similar to the painting on the masks 

 of Salimopiya) for the differently colored lightning." On his head he 

 wears small feathers from the breast of the macaw and downy feathers 

 of the eagle. At the back lapapowa, tail feathers of the macaw and 

 downy eagle feathers. Spruce collar. 



" His clothing is all white, white shirt, white embroidered blanket 

 fastened on the right shoulder, white dance kilt with a blue band, 

 embroidered sash, white fringed leggings of buckskin, blue moccasins, 

 black yam around both legs with bells on the right leg. Yarn and 

 beads on both wrists, and many necklaces around his neck, doubled 

 over the way the society people wear them. He carries yucca in the 

 right hand and a bull roarer. 



"Kwelele is called the black god (koko Ewin-e). Hismaskis all black 

 with white crescents for eyes, and a zigzag stripe for nose. His 

 feathers are the same as those of Citsuka. His ears are rolled com 

 husks. Spruce collar. 



