926 ZTJNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



people got angry and went home. About midnight the black gods took 

 their images and rounded up some deer and antelope and mountain 

 lion and jack rabbits and cottontail rabbits and wood rats. Then 

 the porcupine came and made a corral for the deer and one for the 

 antelope and one for the mountain lion and one for the jack rabbits 

 and one for the cottontails. They made five corrals. 



The katcinas did not kill any game all year, and there was no 

 rain.^' Two girls went down to the corrals where the deer were. The 

 katcinas were looking for game, but they never found anything. 

 They ate their buckskin clothes and their moccasins because they 

 could not get any meat. 



Way off in the east at Cipapolima lived Citsuka, one of the white 

 gods. Every evening when he was on his housetop he saw lightning 

 in the southwest. Then he said," I had better go down where the 

 lightning is. There must be rain there." 



Next morning he took his seeds of corn of all colors and beans and 

 watermelons and muskmelons and pumpkins and squash and he 

 went down to the southwest. Soon night came on. He had a 

 little dish of sacred meal and some water and some medicine and a 

 bull roarer. He whirled his bull roarer and sprinkled meal to the 

 north, west, south, east, up, and down. Then he went on, far into 

 the southwest. On the fifth day in the afternoon he came to a place 

 where there had been rain just a few nnnutes before, and lots of 

 water was running down. He went on a little farther and came to a 

 little lake on a hill with water running down from it. Here he planted 

 his corn and beans and watermelons and muskmelons and squash 

 seeds, and he built a little house there. He stayed there and ate his 

 buckskin moccasins and his leggings, and he was as poor as a crow. 

 He stayed there 14 or 15 days, and then one afternoon he went out to 

 see the coimtry. He went out and saw a creek and cottonwood trees 

 by the creek and he saw two girls washing buckskins. They put it 

 into the water and spread it out and then looked to see if anyone 

 was near. Then they did it again. Citsuka stood there watching 

 the girls. Soon one of the girls saw him. They asked him, "Do you 

 know what we are doing?" He said, "Yes." They said, "What?" 

 He said, "You are washing deerskin." They said, "Yes, but you 

 must not say anything. Long ago when our people and the people 

 from the \allage of the katcinas went hunting deer on the same 

 day, they both made big circles, and our people got all the deer in 

 their circle, and the other people did not get any, and they got angry 

 and went home. Then we rounded up the deer and put them in a 

 corral. If you do not tell anybody we will take you up to our house 

 and you can watch the deer." The young man said, "All right." 

 Then he took the buckskin to help wash it and he saw a little bit of 



31 The implication is that the katcinas withhold rain because they are angry. 



