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Then one black Saliniobiya and one Upo'yona come out and drink. 

 Then they go to Muhewa kiva, and they know that every one has 

 drunk. Then the second pairs that had stayed in all this time start to 

 come out and go around, beginning with the ones in Heiwa kiva. After 

 they have all drunk they all come out and go in pairs around the village 

 to take the bad luck away. 



"Then the people all come out. The man of the house makes the 

 road for the katcinas and then runs away. One of the Salimopiya runs 

 after him and wliips him to take away the bad luck.^' Before they 

 go out the wo'le tells them, 'Now, my children, you will go around 

 and look at the village. You will look carefully, and if anyone is not 

 carrying his mother (i. e., an ear of corn) you will not spare him. Be 

 strong and whip him hard. These are the only ones you will whip. 

 But be careful. Look carefully and do not whip anyone who is carry- 

 ing com, and do not whip anyone who is carrying water, and do not 

 whip any woman who is with child.' ™ After everyone has dnmk, 

 and after they have gone around whipping for a little while, then the 

 Sayati'a comes out. Then they all go around the village. At about 

 3 o'clock in the afternoon they are called," and all the katcinas go 

 into Hekiapawa kiva. Here the yucca is ready for them, great bunches 

 of it, and at one end it is tied round and round into a great ball. As 

 soon as one bunch becomes soft they go back to the kiva for another 

 bunch. 



"Then they all come out and go to the dance plaza. The pekwin 

 comes first, and then one yellow Salimopiya, then one blue, one red, 

 one w^hite, one black, one speckled, then one Lelacoktipona, one 

 Nawico, one Upo'yona, two Anahoho and Culawitsi. The others are 

 still in Hekiapawa. The katcina chief and the katcina pekwin look 

 after the children in the plaza and see that their fathers do not put 

 too many blankets on them. Then thej' divide the children into two 

 groups, and when the katcinas are all in line in the plaza, the fathers 

 carry in their children, and the Koyemci count them. Then the first 

 one, the 3'cllow Sillimobiya, whips them four times and then they go 

 on to the next one. They go down the whole line, six Salimobiya, one 

 Lelacoktipona, one Nawico, two Anahoho, one Culawitsi. When they 

 have been whipped bj' Culawitsi they go up the ladder to Heiwa 

 kiva. The boy looks at the pictures on the wall,^^ and he takes the 

 feather from one of them. 



" Anahoho mounts to the housetop. Here someone from the house brings him a basket or a potteo' jar. 

 He waves this around and throws it down into the yard where the Salimobiya are waiting. At Acoma at 

 one point of the initiation ceremonies, immediately before the whipping, the cacique destroys a pottery 

 bowl filled with ashes mi.xed with water. (White ms.) 



"During Powamu the Hopi whipping katcinas who go about the village whip to remove sickness and 

 "bad luck" but especially for barrenness. (Cf. Roman I>upercalia.) 



•1 Nawico do not go around, but stand on the north side of the church watching the shadow. When the 

 shadow of the church is 3 feet wide, they call the dancers. 



'^ There is great confusion as to whether these paintings are on the wall or on the floor. I believe they 

 are mask paintings on the floor. 



