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bring Cula-witsi in. His father's clan will look after the paint. Five 

 people from his father's clan wiD paint him. There will be one for 

 each color; black, blue, red, yellow, and white. The ceremonial 

 father will go to the five men of his clan and say, 'I have chosen you 

 to look after the black paint,' and they will all say, 'Yes, I shall do 

 it.' Cula'witsi is very dangerous. If anyone does not beheve in 

 the katcinas the color will not stay on if he tries to paint Cula'witsi. 

 It is always very hard to spot him all over. 



"At the initiation Cula'witsi comes in with the speckled Salimopiya. 

 After the Salimopiya are tlii'ough whipping the boys, they all go into 

 hekapawa kiva and the Sayalia come out. Then when the SayaHa 

 are finished they go to hekiipawa and those that are in there come 

 out and each gi-oup goes to its own kiva. Then the pekwin and the 

 komosona tell them, "Now you are going home, but first of all you 

 will take away the bad luck from all of your houses. You will go 

 to all the houses and you will not neglect any of them. And if you go 

 to any house and there is nothing put out with which to take away 

 the bad luck, then you will throw down then- chimney, no matter 

 how important the house may be." He means that the people of 

 each house must put out a new bowl or a nice basket or sometliing. 

 The women all make bowls and jars before the initiation and no 

 matter how nice the bowl is, they will always put it up on the house- 

 top to take away the bad luck from the house. 



" Now wiien Cula'witsi goes into uptsanawa kiva he and his father 

 make fire by rubbing two sticks together and ignite cedar bark. They 

 work with the fire imtil it is burning nicely and then they come out. 

 His father comes first. He wears a white shirt and white trousers 

 and a buckskin over his shoulders. He wears brown leggings and 

 moccasins, and lots of beads and a nice belt. Formerly he used to 

 wear an embroidered sash, but now he wears a silver belt. He has a 

 yucca band around his head and a downy feather in his hair and 

 his face is painted under the eyes with tsuhapa. He carries a bow 1 of 

 sacred meal and a mi'le. He comes first and Cula'witsi follows, and the 

 speclded Salimopiya. They go to heiwa kiva. They stand in the 

 street at the foot of the ladder and the Salimopiya gives his call and 

 one yellow SiiUmopiya comes out with Lelacoktipona. They go next 

 to muhewa. They go all around and they go last to hekiapawa. 



" Then all of them go all around the village. Each woman has put 

 a bowi or a nice basket on the roof. The Salimopiya and Culawitsi 

 and his father and all the other katcinas (one of each kind) stand in 

 the street while Anahoho goes up on the roof. He stands over the bowi 

 that has been set out and prays thus: 'Now you have been laid out 

 here for me to take you, no matter how valuable you are. You are the 

 one to take away the bad hick from this house where these people are 

 living. And if anj^one in this house has a WTong heart (i. e., if anyone 



