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make note of the little boy's name. Then the katcina war priest goes 

 to the ceremonial house of the Koyemci and asks, '\ATio of you wants 

 to come to the whipping of the boys?' Then two of them go and 

 help the Sayah'a. When they are dressed and ready to go they say to 

 the Koyemci, 'Now we shall go to where the children are. Then you 

 will call out the name of the little boy we are looking for. You will 



ask, "Where is our little friend? His name is ," you will say, 



"My grandsons are looking for — ■ — - — ," so as to frighten them all.' 



"Then they start coming to where the little boys are. They come 



looking all around saying, 'Where is little ? My grandsons 



are looking for him.' Then the little boy who is called cries. He 

 wants to join the Katcina Society, but he knows that it is going to 

 hurt. The children can hardly bear it, they are so frightened. Then 

 the Koyemci come to the door and say, 'Are all our little friends 

 here?' The town chief will be there and the katcina chief and his 

 pekwin, and all the important men. Then they will say, 'Yes, 

 they are here. Come in.' Then the four Sayah'a come in and the 

 Koyemci wait outside. They stand in the middle of the room giving 

 their calls and frightening the little ones. Finally one of them is 

 taken up and he kneels down holding his father's knees. He has 

 nothing over him but one buckskin. While he is being whipped all 

 the others cry. Their noses bleed and they are terribly frightened. 

 They whip them all in turn, and after they have whipped all the 

 children, then the katcina chief tells the story of what they did long 

 ago when a little boy told the secrets of the initiation. This is a 

 dangerous thing. The katcina chief warns them not to tell. 



"All the little boys sit around and listen to the katcina chief when 

 he tells the story of what they did long ago. When he has finished 

 the story he says, 'And now you will be the ones who will wear the 

 masks. This is the way we call the rains. Now our friends will 

 show you.' Then they pick out four youngsters and make them 

 stand in a row in front of the Sayah'a and the Sayah'a take off their 

 masks and put them on the heads of the little boys. Then the little 

 boys are terribly frightened. They tell them, 'Do not be afraid,' 

 and they say to them, ' If you are going to dance, this is the way you 

 will wear it. And now that you have a mask you may whip us.' 

 Then the Sayah'a holds out his hand and the boy strikes him once on 

 each arm and once on each leg. They get four strokes from each 

 chUd. Then all the children in turn put on the mask and each whips 

 the Sayah'a. 



"WTien they are finished the children kneel down again. The 

 Sayah'a have a great many feathers. They count beforehand how 

 many children there are, and there is one feather for each. The 

 Sayah'a bring them along with them. They tie them in their hair 

 and they hang down behind, great bunches of them. Then they take 

 off the feathers and they tie one feather in the hair of each little boy. 



