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the kiva overnight with the rest of the dancers, but went home to 

 the south, and came again the next day. 



" The people think a great deal of the Kana-kwe, because when they 

 come for their dance they always bring presents for the priests to pay 

 for their dance. 



There are many myths of the Kana-kwe. The battle with the 

 Kana'kwe is recorded fragmentarily by Gushing (Online of Zufii 

 Creation Myths, p. 424), more fully by Stevenson (Zuni Indians, 

 p. 36). The te.xt version of the Zuni Creation legend recorded by the 

 author follows the Stevenson version. (See pp. 597, 599.) 



The following tale recorded from an official of the kotikan^e shares 

 many features with the legend of Citsuka (see p. 925), the events in 

 which are beUeved to have taken place during the war with the 

 5anakwe. 



"The Kana^kwe are like human people. They do not live at the 

 sacred lake and are not reallyvkatcinas. They came out of the earth 

 the way we did. They came out at a great cave southeast of the 

 sacred lake. WTien they came out they all shouted together and 

 frightened everyone. Then they came to a place whose name I can 

 not remember and there they stayed. They built their houses of 

 black stones. They saw many deer tracks and thought they would 

 make bows and arrows, and hunt. So they made bows and arrows 

 and hunted They built corrals for the deer, and they lived there 

 for two years." 



One day two Kana'kwe were out hunting. They were on the top 

 of a moimtain and looking dowm from the high place they saw two 

 girls washing a deer skin. They saw that the place where they had 

 come out was near there, and they wondered why they had not 

 stopped there where the people were living. Then the two of them 

 went down quickly without any trouble, for they were wise.^ As 

 they came near, the girls said, ""Wlio are these coming? We do not 

 know them. They look dangerous." They were singing and shak- 

 ing their rattles as they went along. As they came closer the girls 

 said, "Let us go ui. We are ashamed to stay out when anyone 

 comes." So they went right m. They pulled the mat over the 

 hatchway, a flat mat of reeds. Then the two Kana-kwe came there 

 and looked to see where the gii-ls had gone. They were singing and 

 trying to coax them out, but the girls would not come. Then they 

 said, "Huita, huita, huita!" (WTien the first people came up this is 

 the word that they used for "I give," but they do not use it any 

 more.) But even then no one came out. The people of the sacred 

 lake heard them, but they did not want to have them there and so 

 they did not come out. So then the Kana'kwe went home and told 

 their people what they had done. When they came back and told 



^ They had supernatural power. 



