1000 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



"After they have given the boys their feathers the Sayah'a go out. 

 They are very angry because they have been whipped by the children, 

 and if they see anyone on the streets they will surely knock him 

 down and beat him. After they have gone aroimd a little while 

 they go back to Wide River. In their houses the women have been 

 cooking. They make paper bread and cook meat and make all kinds 

 of good things. They want to feed the children because they have 

 been hurt. Then their sisters and women relatives bring four bowls 

 of food from each house to the house where the little boys have been 

 whipped. This is for the children and their fathers and the priests 

 and the people of the house. Wlien they bring in the food the fathers 

 tell the children, 'Take home whatever you like to your mothers.' 

 Then the little boys take whatever they like and wrap it up and take 

 it home to their mothers. 



"Sometimes they call the Sayah'a TenapiEiinika (they show them 

 how) when they come for the second whipping of the little boys." 



The costume of Saiyali'a at the initiation and as a punitive katcina 

 is shown in Plate 32, o. For his role in the winter solstice, see p. 919 

 and Plate 21, b. 



The text of the warnmg of the katcina chief to the novices, which 

 recounts the origin of the katcina cult and the danger of betrayal of 

 its secrets, is given on p. 604. 



The Saiyali'a may also be summoned by the komosona when he is 

 apprised of any serious breach of the rules of the Katcina Society. 

 Du ring the summer of 1 924 a young man sold a mask to one of the trad- 

 ers. The mask was seen in the store by an old Zuiii who works about 

 the place. He recognized it and reported it to the katcina chief who 

 decided to have the Saiyali'a come with the next of the summer dances. 

 Accordingly, in August, when Kokokci was being danced, the SaiyaU'a 

 came in the night. Word had gotten around, however, and the j'oung 

 man ran away and took refuge in the United States Government 

 agency at Blackrock. The Saiyalia, however, went around the village, 

 visiting all the kivas, and whipping anyone whom they met, "to take 

 away the bad luck." "If they had foimd the young man they would 

 surely have lulled him," my informant said. 



The following summer there was some talk of having the Saiyali'a 

 come because people had been "getting careless." One young man 

 had worn a bluejay feather in his hair while dancing Kokokci, thus 

 showing that he was a priest, and men had been decorating their 



