BUNZEi.] MISCELLANEOUS PRIEST KATCINAS 1009 



the two bowls around among the people who are standing in the i)laza 

 and on the housetops, and the people take some of the meal from 

 the bowls. 



"While they are doing this the katcina maidens have gotten up and 

 they begin to dance like the Corn maids, each maiden holding an ear 

 of corn. After they have danced they stop and pray, 'Now we have 

 been praying for all the women that they may do well in grinding. 

 May you always be fortunate as we have been and may your arms 

 never ache when you grind.' Then they dance again, each maiden 

 holding an ear of corn. Then all the women inhale and say, 'May 

 we always be like you when we grind.' The katcina maidens dance 

 that the women may have good luck in grinding, and Ololowiclja 

 comes to purify the men so that if any of them have venereal disease 

 they may be cured and not give their diseases to the women. That 

 is all." 



(Ceremony witnessed by R. L. B., September, 1927. At this time 

 it was performed in connection with Upikaiapona danced by muhe- 

 kwe. The ritual of Ololowacka was pcrfonned in the evening on the 

 eighth and last day of the dance. See pis. 36, 37.) 



Kana'kwe Mosona (Kana-kwe Chief) 

 (Plate 33, a) 



Costume. — The mask is white. "Aroxmd the face are the rainbow 

 and the milky way. The back is painted with a dragon fly to make 

 the corn grow fast. The eyes are like tadpoles (mutulika) and there 

 are other tadpoles on the back. His ears hang down because they 

 fought with the people of the Sacred Lake. After the fight they 

 fixed their ears with corn husks, and therefore they wear corn husks 

 in their cars." On the head feathers of the red hawk bound together 

 with duck feathers. Spruce collar. 



They wear the old native cotton shirts and embroidered white 

 blankets. Blue moccasins. The legs and the hands are painted 

 white. In the left hand a fawn skin bag full of seeds, in the right a 

 turtle shell rattle (kokolonane). This is different from the turtle 

 shell rattle worn on the leg, which is called by a different name. 



He has a protruding snout. The opening is round to make the 

 clouds come quickly when he dances. 



The Kana-kwe masks are kept in the Com clan house (K. 391). 



Ceremonies. — "The Kanakwe only come for one day every four 

 years, and they go right back home. They never stay in the village 

 overnight, because they do not really belong here. They are not 

 Sacred Lake people, but just dancers. They live in the south." 



Sometimes one or two Kana-kwe come in the mixed dance. They 

 came with the mixed dance, August, 1925. They did not go into 



