928 ZUNI K.'i.TCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



their circle. Then the people from the village of the katcinas did 

 not get any and they went home and the other people drove all the 

 game into corrals. After a while I saw the lightning here and came 

 and made a cornfield and the two girls took me to their house to 

 watch the game." "Is that so?" "Yes. I will show you. To- 

 morrow night I shall give each family a deer." Then Pautiwa said, 

 "Well, to-morrow I will bring my daughter and you will stay with 

 my daughter. She is a nice looking girl, but she's a little thin 

 because she has not had enough to eat." The boy said, "All right. 

 I think I have some meat here." Then Pautiwa ate the meat, and 

 then he went home. After that the boy went home. 



Next day he went to his cornfield, and his wife wanted to come with 

 him, but he said, "No, you stay here." He took along some meat for 

 his dinner. Soon two ducks came swimming up the lake, fautiwa 

 took off his duck shirt and went into the house, and the girl did the 

 same. The man saw the girl and he brought some deer meat and they 

 had dinner. Then ^autiwa said, "I must go home. Tonight you 

 take some deer out and you and my girl come to the village of the 

 katcinas." Then the young man said, "I will make them all black 

 crows^^ tonight, and don'tyou let them eat any corn." ThenPautiwa 

 went home, and his daughter stayed in the field that night. 



In the evening the boy went down to the corral. Everyone came 

 down and he gave them each one deer. Then he said to the two girls, 

 "You had better go into the mountain sheep corral." Then he put a 

 mountain lion in to watch the deer, and then he went to the mountain 

 sheep corral and put a wolf in with them, and he went to the antelope 

 and put a yellow coyote in there, and he went to the jack rabbits and 

 he put a wild cat to watch them, and he went to the cottontails and 

 put a badger to watch them. Then he went home. Everyone went 

 home. He killed a deer and skinned it. Late at night the two girls 

 went to bed. Citsuka sat by the fire. He took a handful of corn 

 pollen and a handful of salt and put it into the fire and covered it 

 over with ashes. Soon the salt got very hot and popped. Then the 

 deer started to run out, and the mountain lion ran after them, and 

 the wolf and the wildcat and the coyote and the badger did the same. 

 Then all the crows went down to the man's cornfield, and Pautiwa's 

 daughter was busy all night chasing the crows away, running from 

 side to side waving her arms and calling out. After a while the crows 

 flew away and the deer ran all over the country. Then Citsuka took 

 i^autiwa's daughter home to the village of the katcinas. 



That is the reason why every year at the end of December Citsuka 

 comes from the east, and ne.xt day Pautiwa comes in from the west, 

 and they go down to the village of the katcinas together. 



That is all. 



" The overworked pun on the words koko, crow, and katcina. 



