BUNZEL] DANCES OF THE WINTER AND SUMMER SERIES 1023 



men went into the room where thej^ were dressing and made un songs 

 in their own language and had the Zufii men sing them. The Laguna 

 people liked the Zuni songs and the Itiwana people liked the Laguna 

 songs, so they exchanged. The Laguna people told them to dance 

 for four days, and so they came out and danced with the Laguna 

 songs. The Laguna songs were all about hunting. The words meant, 

 " Now there is a deer. You are over there. Come to me. I shall put 

 my valuable beads on you. I shall give you all my beads. I shall 

 dress you if you come to me. This is the way we shall Uve." So 

 they danced with this song and the Laguna people told them, "When 

 you come to your home you will be good hunters. You will always 

 hunt and you will sing the way we have taught you." So they said, 

 "Very well; we shall try it." Then the Laguna people gave them 

 bread and peaches and all the things they had ready to pay them 

 for the dance. 



Then they came home and they danced here again for two days 

 after they got back. The people here knew the dancers were coming 

 back and they waited for them. Then when they came they danced 

 here with the Laguna songs, and their dancing was different, too. 

 Then the men got together in the kivas and talked about it, how the 

 Tcakwena dancers came back from Laguna with new songs, and they 

 thought they were nice songs and they liked the Laguna words and 

 the different kind of dancing, too. So after they came back they 

 decided to have two different kinds of Tcakwena — their own old ones 

 and the new ones. So to make them different the ones who had been 

 to Laguna cut off their hair. That is the way we came to have the 

 short-haired Tcakwena. They still sing in the Laguna language, and 

 their dance step is different. They stand up when they dance, but 

 the old Tcakwena dance stooping over. When the men came back 

 from I^aguna they brought back with them one of the Laguna katcinas. 

 He is Hatacaku. He is like the Koyemci, but his mask is a little dif- 

 ferent. There are always two of them, one drums and the other 

 dances. They always speak the Lagima language. 



References. — Parsons, Notes on Zuni, I, 212. Stevenson, p. 265. 



Hatacuku 

 (Plate -40, h) 



Costume. — The mask is made of cloth painted with clay from the 

 Sacred Lake. He wears turkey feathers in the knobs on liis head. 



When he comes to drum for Tcakwena he wears only the dark blue 

 kilt fastened on his shoulder, and the string of little bells around his 

 waist. He has no belt and his legs are bare. But when he comes 

 for the winter dances he wears red buckskin moccasins and fringed 

 leggings. 



"His mask is not valuable. Anyone can have it. If a young man 

 does not dance with his own kiva or if he has been away while they 



