938 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



peaches and meat and bread. When he had lots of food he went 

 to his village of the katcinas. So he went. 



"This is what happened. That's all." 



Mythology. — When the earth was soft Su'uki used to come into the 

 village and go around. Sometimes the women took their babies to 

 the peach orchards and put them to sleep under the trees while they 

 worked. Then if the mother went to the spring or anywhere out of 

 sight Su'uki would come. She was always watching. She could 

 smell out the babies and she always waited around the peach orchards 

 near where the mothers left their babies and as soon as the mother 

 left the sleeping baby and went to get a drink of water Su'uki came 

 and took the baby and put liim in her basket and carried him oft". 

 Finally she came home with the baby. Then she put him down and 

 came back and took another one and put him in her basket and took 

 him home too. Then the mothers came back happily after having a 

 drink at the spring, and there the babies were gone! They saw 

 Su'uki's tracks. She went barefoot and had long toenails. Then 

 the mothers cried xery much, but they were afraid to go after their 

 babies. Then the women who had lost their babies came home and 

 told the people, and they all went out to look for the babies, but they 

 never found them. Finally they came to where the people used to 

 dry their peaches. They knew that Su'uki lived there, and they 

 watched for an opportunity to kill her because she had taken their 

 babies. 



One day they all made bows and arrows and went out to kill Su'uki. 

 They all met together in the kivas and decided that they would not 

 have their babies stolen any more. The women had to go and work 

 in the fields and help their husbands, and they did not want to have 

 their- babies taken while they worked. So they all went out. They 

 went into all the caves and all the crevices of the rocks. Finally they 

 came to the place where she lived. She yelled at the people and came 

 out screaming and waving her great knife, with her hair flying. The 

 men were all frightened, but they shot her with their bows and arrows 

 and finally they killed her. Then they buried her and said, "This is 

 where you are going to lie. Now you must behave from now on. 

 We have killed you because you stole our babies. Now we shall call 

 this place Su'ukonakwi." ^^ 



After they had killed her they made her mask because she was a 

 raw person. Even though she was evil she was a katcina, so they 

 made a mask for her, and they still make feathers for her too, to please 

 her, because they do not want to have any trouble. After they had 

 killed her they thought maybe they had done wrong to kill her because 

 she was a katcina, and so they made feathers for her, and they made 

 a mask for her so that she could come back to Itiwana. The man 



30 This is on the road to the south of the village and the people still believe that Su'uki lives there. 

 When she comes to dance she always comes from the south. 



