BCNZELl THE INITIATION 989 



He wears a special kind of kilt called the Salimopiya kilt. It is 

 embroidered like the ceremonial blanket with butterflies and flowers. 

 Blue leather belt. Bare feet with spruce anklets (tsileakwin). 



He carries yucca in both hands. The bunch in the right hand he 

 canies \\ith the points forward and uses it to whip people. That in 

 the left hand he does not use, and carries it with the points back. 

 His seeds (blue corn for the blue Salimopiya) are tied in a corn husk 

 to the bunch of yucca in the left hand. 



There are 12 permanent Salimopiya masks, two of each color. 

 They are kept in six different houses as follows: 



Yellow (hiptsinona), K. house No. 142 E, heiwa (also lelacoktipona). 

 Blue (ti'anona), K. house No. 414 Cn, muhewa (sayatia). 

 White (Eohanona), K. house No. 292 P, ohewa (anahoho).' 

 Red (ciloona), K. house No. 252 Ba, tcupawa (nawico). 

 Black (clkanona), K. house No. 161 P, hekiapawa (upo'yona). 

 Speckled (itaponaona), K. house No. X163 a, uptsanawa (culawitsi). 



Ceremonies. — The permanent masks are taken out only for the 

 initiation, once in four years. WTien the Salimopiya come in the 

 winter they take any masks and paint them like SaUmopiya. Some- 

 times if a man does not want to have a mask made up, he will borrow 

 the permanent mask from the man who keeps it. Then he must 

 count days and plant prayer sticks and pay the keeper of the mask. 



There is a special wo'le for the SaUmopiya when they come for the 

 initiation. He takes care of the masks, paints them, and puts new 

 feathers on them, and takes care of the clothing. He teaches the 

 impersonators what they must do. 



The real Salimopiya come only once in fom- years. But sometimes 

 they make up Salimopiyas to come with the winter rain dance series. 

 They come at the winter solstice with Tcakwena oka. When there 

 is to be an initiation they do not come in the winter. (Not correct. 

 They came in 1929.) Two Salimopiya come with the Saiyataca at 

 Ca'lako. (See p. 968.) 



The Salimopiya never come with the mixed dance or with the rain 

 dancers. They never come in summer. They always make the 

 people unhappy and theu- breath brings the wind, therefore they 

 never come in summer. 



The Salimopiya impersonators are selected in each kiva the day 

 Kaklo comes for the first time. There are two yellow Salimopiya 

 and two Lelacoktipona from Heiwa kiva, two blue SaUmopiya (and 

 four Sayaha?) from Muhewa, two white SaUmopiya and two Anahoho 

 from Ohewa, two red SaUmobiya and t\s"o Nawico from Tcupawa, two 

 black SaUmopiya and two Upo'yona from Hekiapawa, and two many 

 colored SaUmopiya and Culawitsi from Uptsanawa. The next morn- 

 ing all the people selected for the SaUmopiya party work on prayer 



