974 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



tains one long stick and two short ones.*' The long one and one short 

 one are for the house which will entertain Ca'lako. The other short 

 one is for the man to take away the bad luck from the village.** .... 

 After they are through with dancing to take away the bad luck, this 

 part of the crook is planted. The long crook and one short stick are 

 left. The wo'le takes these to the man who will entertain the Ca'lako. 

 This man plants prayer sticks each month in his field on the same day 

 as the Ca'lako impersonators plant at the springs. 



' 'After kohaito, he takes the short stick from the long one and plants 

 it. He still has the long one. Right after Ca'lako there are five daj's 

 of dancing. On the last day the Koyemci come and take the crook, 

 and all the people in the house stand in the middle of the room while 

 the Koyemci goes around the walls with the crook, taking away all the 

 bad luck. He does this in every room in the house and then takes 

 the crook to the plaza. He plants it later with his o^vn prayer sticks. 



"After Pautiwa brings in the crooks, the Ca'lako people begin to 

 learn their prayers from the wo'le. They praj' for all the people and 

 for all good things. "WTien Ca'lako comes in in the evening the owner 

 of the house has a cigarette ready, which he gives him to smoke. 

 Then he says, 'How have you prayed for us? If you tell us that, 

 we shall be veiy glad to Icnow it. ' Then he starts to pray : 



" 'I have come from the sacred lake and I have come by all the 

 springs. ' (Then he names all the springs where the Zufii people 

 stopped when they came up.) 'I have come to see my people. For 

 many years I have heard of my people living here at Itiwan-a and for 

 long I have wanted to come. I want them to be happy, and I have 

 been praying for them; and especially I want the women to be for- 

 tunate with their babies. I bring my people all kinds of seeds, all 

 the different kinds of corn and all different lands of fruit and wild 

 green things. I have been praying for my people to have long life; 

 and whoever has an evil heart should stand up in the daylight. I have 

 been praying that my people may have all different kinds of seeds 

 and that their rooms may be full of corn of all colors and beans of all 

 colors and pumpldns and water gourds, and that they may have 

 plenty of fresh water, so that they may look well and be healthy 

 because of the pumpkins and the beans and the corn. I want to see 

 them healthy. 



" 'As I was coming by Rainbow Spring, there was a frog with red 

 legs ready to come with me. I did not want anyone to miss me, so I 

 brought him with me. Then I came to Pocowa and there was a little 

 duck ready to come with me, so I brought him along too, because I 

 did not want anyone to stay behind. All the springs I passed, and 



*' This is incorrect. There are three short sticks. The third is given to the impersonator of Ca'lako, 

 who plants it with his first monthly olferinf;. 



*s A rite of exorcism held after the New Year. Each kiva sends in one masked god to go about the 

 village. They do not all come the same day. 



