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hand he carries the big knife (atcian lana) which is painted red up to 

 the hilt, with red paint taken from the Sacred Lake. In the left 

 hand he carries a yucca whip. His "heart" is in his whip. 



He wears a buckskin shirt (na'le keme), a white tasseled belt 

 (mo'Iiponi'kwin'e) with a fox skin (lanikwele). Turtle shell rattle 

 on right leg. Blue moccasins (ketomawe). He has beads around 

 his neck (takune) and yam aroimd the wrists (citonpasikwine). 



"This is an old mask. They say it is real blood on the face. Only 

 a strong man will wear this mask. They keep it at Komosona's 

 house and it is hardly ever taken out. The head man of a kiva can 

 wear it, but a yoimg man would not dare, because it is dangerous. 

 If a young man wants to come as Hai'nawi in the mixed dance he 

 will paint another mask like this, but he will not wear the real mask. 

 Eveiyone is afraid of Hai'nawi. When I was a little girl they brought 

 hin\ in in a dance and I just couldn't go to see the dance because I 

 was so afraid of him." 



Ceremonies. — "He always comes with Homatci. He carries the big 

 knife because he is the one who cuts off the heads of children who tell. 

 The real Hai'nawi only comes if some one tells. Whenever anyone 

 tells they call hmi.'^ He doesn't come very often now because the 

 children behave. But if the people get careless about dance ritual 

 they will call these dancers in to frighten the people. They are talking 

 about it now because the people are gettmg careless. One man went 

 to the toilet in his dance dress, and some of the men have been working 

 on masks in their own houses. They shouldn't do these things, and 

 so they think they will have this dancer come when they are having a 

 mixed dance." 



Myths. — Long ago when the people first came up and while the 

 earth was stili soft some one told the secrets of the dance. Then the 

 chief priest asked in a prayer that Hainawi should come and punish 

 the boy w ho had told about the dance. As soon as the boy heard 

 that the priest had called for this dancer he ran away and hid. He 

 got some one — i. e., a witch — to help him, and he went down into the 

 earth. Then the katcina came. There were four of them. Homatci 

 and Hainawi are the dangerous ones, and Temtemci and Ahute come 

 with them and stamp on the ground. They went to all the different 

 villages, to Itiwana and Hawikuh and Matsaka and Kakmra and 

 Hecokta. They looked all over for the boy wiio had told, but they 

 did not find him. So they w^ent to the twin heroes and asked them 

 to help them find the boy. So the twin heroes took them and 

 show'ed them where the boy was hiding. \Vhen they got there the two 

 dangerous katcinas jumped, and Hainawi gave his call, "Hai'nawi," 

 and shook his knife and stamped so that the earth shook. They 



" See warning of the katcina chief at the initiation of boys, p. 604. 



