1018 ZUNI KATCINAS 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



Show US if you are light-footed in running and bring them to us quickly." The 

 heruta dances where he stands and then disappears round some corner. 



Soon he returns with his shiwanna. At their head comes the nalua with his 

 staff of authority in his hand. Behind the nalua comes the heruta. He wears 

 tribal costume, shirt of deerskin, deerskin fringes on the shoulders, and deerskin 

 trouser legs fastened to the belt. He has a black mask in a kind of leathern box 

 the top part of which is covered with woolly buffalo hide. Across the lower part 

 of the leathern ears are two little white eagle feathers. Lightning signs are 

 painted on the face. To the bottom of the mask a rolled-up coyote skin is sewn. 

 (Mask illustrated f3g. 22, a, p. 178.) Also Acoma and San Felipe Heruta 

 (White, manuscript). 



Jemez. Hymahaie related in character but not appearance (Parsons, Jemez, 

 p. 108; pi. 12, b.) 



. TO'WA TCAKWENA (Old TcAKWENA) 

 (Plate 38, a) 



Costume. — "He is a society member, therefore he wears the red 

 feather on the right side of the head, and the yucca band. White 

 downy feather on the left side; behind lacowanlana. His hair is long 

 and hangs down the back, and he has a long black beard too. The 

 mask conies imder the chin and is painted black with the shiny paint 

 made from the fruit of the yucca. Large mouth. 



The body is painted black with hekwitola. The shoulders and 

 forearms are yellow. On each breast and on the back are designs in 

 yellow (pilawe, bows). Ann bands of blue buckskin with tabs and 

 fringes of red buckskin. Buckskin kilt, embroidered Hopi sash. 

 Fox skin. Blue moccasins. The legs should be painted black. Turtle 

 shell rattle on right leg. In the right hand yucca, in the left bow and 

 arrow. The leader carries a gourd rattle in the right hand. The 

 dance step is characterized by a peculiar stooping posture. 



Ceremonies. — The dance belongs to He'iwa kiva and is always 

 danced during ca'lako and often is substituted for Kokokci in the 

 rain dance series. 



" Towa tcakwena always has funny songs. He tells the people, and 

 especially the children, what to do. He used to sing like this at the 

 sacred lake and Pautiwa heard him and said, ' Now you must go to 

 my people at Itiwana and tell them these songs so that they may 

 know how to live. You will go and sing for them like that.' Pau- 

 tiwa wanted his children to know all these things. 



" So Towa Tcakwena came here to dance. First he started and said, 

 'I am praying for the world to be beautiful for yoii,' and he said he 

 was bringing the clouds and the rain and that he was a good hunter 

 and wanted his people to have good luck and to live long. He began 

 lilve this with a nice song, but then he started to sing funny things. 

 He said things like this: 



