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in turn as they come to take him. Then they say, 'I think our grand- 

 child is afraid of this thing. ' The river is full of snow and ice, for it 

 is winter, but they walk right in, and the mud and slush come up to 

 their waists. Kaklo has on all his fine, valuable clothing, but they 

 drop him right into the river. They handle him veiy roughly and he 

 treats them just the same. When they come out of the river on the 

 north side they are all wet. The people are all on the housetops to 

 watch them come in, for Kaklo comes only once in four years. 



" When they come in they take him to tcupawa kiva. When they 

 get to the foot of the ladder they make him sit down. He makes a lot 

 of trouble there, for he wants the smallest and weakest of the Koyemci 

 to cany him up the ladder. Then the smallest one carries him up 

 and the others help him. They stand below him and support him 

 so that he will not fall . When they get to the top he sits down in the 

 hatchway and the Koyemci sing for him. They sing, 'Now, our 

 grandson Kaklo, you will take one, two, thi-ee, four, five, six, seven, 

 eight steps to go dowTi and to go to the place prepared for you. You 

 will sit down there.' Then Kaklo goes down and sits at the foot of 

 the ladder in the kiva. Then they sing again, a different song. 

 'Now you wi'l use your own feet to go to the decorated place.' 

 As they sing they run backward. After they repeat this four times 

 he goes to the decorated place. In the kiva are the heads of tcupawa 

 kiva and all the tcupawa people, the Kaklo priesthood, and the Sali- 

 mopiya wo'le. Kaklo sits down in the corner and the rest of the 

 priesthood sit beside him. Then he starts his prayer. He starts 

 just as the sim comes up. It takes about two or three hours. The 

 wives and sisters of the Kaklo priests have all been grinding corn 

 for his drink. When the women bring the meal the wo'le takes it 

 and transfers it to another basket and fills the women's basket with 

 all Idnds of rubbish to tease them. As Kaklo comes to the end of 

 his prayer he says, 'And in eight days I shall come again.' Then 

 he finishes and goes right out and goes to muhewa kiva. The rest of 

 the Kaklo priesthood have already left and gone to another kiva. 

 As soon as Kaklo goes out the head men of tcupawa kiva select the 

 men to personate the katcinas at the initiation. They select two 

 to be Siilimopiya and two to be Nawico. Kaldo goes to all the kivas 

 in the following order, tcupawa, muhewa, ohewa, uptsanawa, heiwa, 

 hekiapawa, and when he has been to all the kivas he goes to Wide 

 River. Here the other Kaklo priests meet him and help him undress. 

 Then they take the mask and the clothing back to the house of the 

 head priest. 



"On the eighth day in the morning Kaklo comes agam and gives his 

 talk again in each of the six kivas. This time, however, he does not 

 give his whole talk because he must finish in hekiapawa kiva before 

 Kolowisi comes in. He comes to hekiapawa at about sunset and a 



