ZTJNI KATCINAS 



as I am doing now. I shall make them all grow old." So she walked 

 along wiping her face and holding her knees. She was a very, very 

 old woman, but she was acting as though she were young. 



So she came by the Place-of-the-winds*^ in the evening. All of the 

 Salimopiya and Kolowisi and the others were waiting at Hepatina'* 

 and there she caught up with them. Then the Salimopiya said, 

 "Why have you come? We left you at home." Then right away 

 she exposed her breast and Kolowisi came and sucked at her breast. 

 When the Salimopiya saw that they did not say anything more, 

 because Kolowisi always wanted to nurse from Hemokatsik'. Then 

 the Salimopiya said, "All right," for they knew that if Kolowisi 

 nursed from her he would have a great deal of water to throw up with 

 the seeds for the boys. So they came in and went into hekiapawa 

 kiva late in the evening. WTien Kolowisi went into hekiapawa, 

 Hemokyatsi went in with him and lay down beside him as if she were 

 his mother. The black Salimopiya went into hekiapawa with 

 Kolowisi. 



The Muluktakia do not bring in the tree at night, but they leave it 

 at Where-the-pumpkin-stands and in the morning they bring it in for 

 Kolowisi. Then they dance, holding the tree, and Hemokatsik' comes 

 out and dances, holding the green branches of spruce in her hands. 

 Then she comes to Kolowisi, where they have set him up with his 

 head sticldng through the wall of hekiapawa Idva, and she suckles 

 him, and he sticks out his tongue and licks her breast. As she dances 

 early in the morning she tells the people that she is praying for them 

 to be happy and to have long life that they may grow to be old like 

 herself; and she tells them that she will be their great-grandmother. 



That is the way she comes. Her children still treat her badly the 

 way they did long ago, but here everyone likes to see her. 



Salimopiya 

 (Plates 30, 31) 



Costume. — On the head lapapowa, made of parrot feathers bound 

 to a stick of sagebrush, with iridescent duck feathers and feathers of 

 the sandhill crane. "They use sagebrush because sagebrush is hard 

 to get tlu-ough and they want Salimopiya to look dangerous." The 

 painting on the side of the face is hepakine. Collar of crow feathers 

 to frighten the childi-en, because the crows bring bad luck. 



The blue Salimopiya (han'ona) has his mask painted with blue gum 

 paint, his body with the juice of black cornstalks (Rekwi), thighs 

 white. He has big eyes and a long snout. 



" Pinawa, a ruin about a mile and a half west of Zuni, on the south side of the river. 

 ** A shrine in a field a short distance southwest of Zuni. 



