1024 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



are practicing and just comes back the day before they dance and 

 wants to dance mth them,he will have sone one fix him up as Hatacuku 

 and dance with them. He will take a piece of buckskin or canvas to 

 some older man and have him paint it for him. He measm-es the 

 man's face and makes the mask. He fills the knobs with clay from 

 the Sacred Lake and paints the mask all over with the same clay. 

 Then he takes seeds and chew's them and rubs them aU over the mask 

 and prays: "Now I have made you into a person hastily. You will 

 be as valuable as other people are. Do not thinlc yourseK cheap, but 

 have a strong soul hke the others and bring my people good luck." 

 He chews seeds and rubs them around the mask, inside and out. 

 Then the man for whom he has made the mask stands beside him 

 facing the east. He holds the mask in his hand and says, "Now you 

 will never trouble your father wiio is going to take care of you. You 

 will never bring liim misfortune or bad luck." Then he turns it 

 around four times to take off the bad luck from the man who is going 

 to keep the mask. Then the young man takes it out. 



"There is no whipping because it is not a real mask. The young 

 man must get Ms mask at another tune. But any man who wants to 

 join in a dance can wear this. 



" He comes with the short-haired Tcakwena and sometimes with the 

 mixed dance. Sometimes he just comes with Sahmopiya at the winter 

 dance series. 



"He comes from Laguna. The Tcakwena brought him back when 

 they went there to dance. He always tallis the Laguna language. 

 He makes jokes about people." 



TOMTSINAPA 



(Plate 38, 6) 



Costume. — The face is painted blue with stripes of black and yellow 

 around the edge, " to bring the rains to Itiwana." On the sides of the 

 head are painted dragon fhes " to make the crops gi'ow fast." He has a 

 protruding snout with a band of red dyed rabbit fur where it joins 

 the mask. On the head yellow parrot feathers with downy feathers 

 of the eagle. Standing up at the back of the head a fan of eagle wing 

 feathers, with black goat's hair where they are fastened. Spruce 

 collar. The body paint is pink clay from the sacred lake. He wears 

 arm bands of blue buckskin with tabs of buckskin and tiu-key feathers. 

 Embroidered Idlt lilie that worn by Sa'limopiya. Blue leather belt 

 with silver belt over it. "Wliite tasseled sash, fox skin, blue moccasins. 

 Yarn on both legs with httle bells. In the left hand a spruce sapUng 

 with yarn of different colors tied around the base, and feathers at the 

 top (downy feather, hawk, humming bird, oriole). 



