956 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



prayer. Then the Koyemci tells them that all year he has been pray- 

 ing for his aunts, for their long life and for their crops and for all good 

 things for them. Then they all say, 'Thank you,' and his father's 

 brother gives him the prayer sticks. Everyone sprinkles corn meal 

 on his head. Then they all brmg him their presents. There will be 

 really valuable presents hke blankets and clothing from his real aunts. 

 All the men bring whole sheep, and the women grind and bake. Then 

 he takes as much as he can carry on liis back, and the other people 

 take the rest and they carry it all up to the plaza. The women follow 

 him with the flour and bread on their heads, and the men take the 

 meat and store t hin gs in a wagon. Each Koyemci's things are piled 

 up by his place in the plaza. All the Koyemci come like that from 

 the houses of their aunts." 



In the evening after all the dancing is over, after Pautiwa has 

 brought in the com maids and they have finished their dancing in the 

 kiva and gone out, then the Koyemci's people will come and take 

 their presents away. They will take all liis things to his own home, 

 to his wife's house if he is married, othei'wdse to his mother's house. 

 Then, after everything has been taken away from the plaza, father 

 Koyemci divides the village into sections and assigns each section to 

 one of the Koyemci, tellmg him to go to certain houses and thank the 

 people for their presents and wish them good luck. So they start out 

 from the plaza. Everyone else has gone home to his wife. The 

 Ca'lako people are in only three days, and they have gone home long 

 ago. These poor men want to go home too, for it is way late at night, 

 but they are still worldng for the people. So they go around to all 

 the houses and stand outside and say, 'Mothers!' They say it so 

 that those inside can hear them. Then they answer. Then he says 

 again, 'May you have long life.' (Ton tekohanan yaniktciatu!) 'I 

 am praying for you.' ('To'naho' tekohanan ceme'a!') Then they 

 say, 'Thank you.' Then they give to him again. They have 

 already given in the morning, and now they give to him again. The 

 woman of the house takes a basket of broken paper bread for the 

 people of the village of the katcinas ^ and some fresh paper 

 bread for the Koyemci. Then she goes out and sprinkles corn meal 

 and gives the bread to him. He puts the whole paper bread into his 

 blanket on his back, and the broken paper bread he puts into his fawn- 

 skin bag for the ancients. So they go around to all the houses. 

 Every house in the village is visited this way that night. Some- 

 times his brother or someone in his wife's family will go around with 

 him and help him carry his things, and take them home for him when 

 he has too much to carry. 



"After eveiy house in the village has been visited they come back 

 to the plaza. There is a big fire burning there. Then their father 



« Observed in houses of the Badger clan December. 1927, and 1928. R. L. B. See p. 777 for prayers. 

 " To be sacrificed in the river. 



