984 ZTJNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



little after dark he hears Kolowisi blowing on the great shell. Then 

 he stops at once and gets right up and goes out and goes to Wide 

 River. Then the other Kaldo priests meet him there and help him 

 imdress and they go back to the house of the head priest. 



"Early the next morning just as the sun comes up Kaklo comes in 

 gain froma Pumpkin Place ^ wdth one Kana'kwe and all different 

 lands of katcinas. They are not dressed in full costume, but they 

 wear masks and are just wrapped in blankets. Kaklo comes ahead 

 and makes the road for them. They go around the village to bring 

 good luck for the children who are to be initiated. Long ago each 

 man carried an ear of corn with him and when they had gone around 

 the village he went to the house of his father's clansmen. Here 

 everyone sprinkled his head with water. Then they took him into 

 the back I'oom and he undressed there and went home. Now all 

 the men do not cany corn, so they just go around the village and then 

 Kaldo takes them all to Wide River and they undress there. This 

 is called haciatinakwe. 



"When Kaklo goes out to Wide River the other men of the Kaklo 

 priesthood are waiting for htin there. The katcina ]3ekwin and the 

 two men of the Corn clan also go there. They take the Kaklo 

 personator to the house of the katcina pekwin. All the relatives of the 

 katcina pekwin are there and all the women of the Corn clan. He 

 comes in and there are many women there. They set out a bowl of 

 water and then they all sprinlvle his head. His father uses an ear 

 of corn, but the women just dip the water with their hands. Then 

 they all eat. While he is eating the two men of the Corn clan take 

 the mask to the back room where it is kept. Then after the Kaklo 

 impersonator has eaten he gets up and says, 'Now, my people, be 

 happy.' Then he leaves and goes home. That is all." 



Mythology.' — Kaklo's myth has been recorded by Cushing in his 

 Outlines of ZuQi Creation Myths,*' and an abstract of his version 

 is given herewith. None of my informants knew of the existence of 

 this myth. In folklore Kaklo is the kopekwin of katcina village, and 

 one of the rulers of the katcinas. 



Kaklo, elder brother of Siwulu'siwa and Avisest of the seven sons of 

 Kowimas, first sent out by his father to search for the middle, wandered 

 to the north. His face became white from the frozen vapor of his 

 breath; he was blinded by the light and his face became streaked 

 with tears, and his mouth splayed with calling. So he died and was 

 transformed. He cried aloud and duck heard him and offered to 

 guide him. He hung tinkling shells on duck's neck to guide him. 

 But Kaldo could not follow her into the lake that lay across their 

 path. Rainbow-worm hearing the song of the sacred shells calls to 



^ East of the village. 



•1 Thirteenth Ann. Kept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 406 et seq. 



