BUszEL] MISCELLANEOUS PRIEST KATCINAS 1007 



The mask is painted with bhie and red stars "for fine nights." He 

 has large ears sticlcing out with a flat wing feather of the hawk in 

 each. The side of the face is painted wdth the bear's claw because 

 he is a warrior. He has protruding eyes, and below them black slits 

 through which the man looks out. Coyote skin collar. 



He wears a buckskin shirt, embroidered sash and red woman's 

 belt. Arm bands of blue leather with bucksldn fringes representing 

 clouds and lahacoma. He wears the bucksldn bandoleer with shells, 

 the insignia of the war chief. Turtle shell rattle on the right leg. 

 Fox skin. Body painted yellow, legs white. Blue moccasins. 

 Yucca in right hand; left, boM' and arrow, j^ucca, and a gourd rattle. 

 Sometimes when he is not angry he carries bow and arrow in left 

 hand and rattle in right, and no yucca at all 



He comes in the mixed dance with Temtemci, and the others, 

 Hai'nawi and Ho'matci. He goes up to people and says "Ahu-te" 

 and frightens them. He came with the mixed dance August, 1925. 

 He was always the last katcina to enter and leave the plaza. He 

 walked with a pecuhar ponderous gait, out of hne, giving his deep 

 call, "A'hu'te." 



O'lolowicka 

 (Plate .33, d) 



Costume. — Mask, painted turquoise, with deer, eagle, turkey wing 

 and macaw feathers on crown. CoUar of raven feathers. Two 

 girdles of raven feathers around his chest and waist. Wliite sldrt, 

 embroidered kilt, sash, red belt, fox skin, fringed leggings, blue moc- 

 casins, yarn (with bells?). Phallus supported in belt. 



Ololowicka has a characteristic dance step. He trots up and down 

 before the line of dancers. His call is "Olololololo." The brownish 

 fluid ejected from the phallus in the course of the ceremony is a sirup 

 made from peaches (formerly yucca fruit). 



The mask and the phallus are ancient. Kalawasa is head of the 

 cult, and the mask is probably kept in Ids house. Precise information 

 is lacking. 



There is considerable esoteric ritual connected with the impersona- 

 tion of Ololowicka, the operation of the phallus and the prei)ara- 

 tion of the fluid. There are magical praj^ers, of course, for all these 

 incidents. Only three men "loiow how." The performer in 1927 

 was severely criticized for clumsiness. Omens are read from the 

 character of the flow. (Parsons, Winter and Summer Dance Series.) 



Ceremonies. — "They may dance hekcina cilowa (red paint) in sum- 

 mer or winter. It is the prettiest of aU the rain dances. The men 

 paint their bodies red, and they have the prettiest songs. So when 

 they decide to have this dance they practice their songs. Some man 

 who has a good voice will teach the men the songs, and they will 



