1026 ZUNI K.'VTCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



temci and other "dangerous" katcinas always appear, the others 

 are selected at random according to the preferences of participants 

 and the available masks. 



Mixed katcinas are performed in all pueblos. There is probably 

 little correspondence in the individual masks. 



KUKUCULI 

 (Plate 40, c) 



Costume. — His face is like Tomtsinapa's. The head is painted black 

 to represent the sky, and the white spots are the stars. On the back 

 of his head is painted a large butterfly. Over each ear he wears a 

 squash blossom. On the head yellow parrot feathers, and at the back 

 standing upright parrot tail feathers with downy feathers and small 

 parrot feathers, spruce collar, the twigs tipped -wdth popcorn to repre- 

 sent stars. He is a sky katcina. 



His body paint is red paint niLxed with pink clay. The arms and 

 legs are yellow. He wears arm bands of blue buckskin with scallops 

 and fringes of red bucksldn. '\^^lite cotton kilt with blue band, em- 

 broidered sash and red woman's belt. Fox skin. Blue moccasins 

 with yarn on both legs. He carries yamuwe in both hands, " because 

 he is the sky." On the j^amuwe are turkey feathers and feathers of 

 all the little birds. 



He is the leader of the mixed dance. He used to come with Tcak- 

 wena, but now he comes with the niLxed dance as their solo dancer 

 and gives the calls for them. He comes with the mixed dance that 

 uses the drum. 



Myth. — Long ago, Hainawi and Homatci and Temtemci and some 

 other katcina village people used to come in to dance at Itiwana. 

 Then other people came from outside, hke Salt woman and Deer kat- 

 cina and Bear katcina, and Pautiwa always sent them in to dance 

 with the mixed dance. Now the mixed dance had no drum, and some 

 of them wanted to have a buckskin bundle and to dance like 

 Tcakwena.^ 



Now they were getting ready to go to Itiwana and Pautiwa said, 

 "AU these outside people have come and joined us. Is everyone 

 here? " Then thej^ thought of all the directions. The bear had come 

 from the east and the white bear had come from the south and the 

 wild goat had come from the north, and there were coyote and deer 

 and all different animals from all the directions. Then Pautiwa 

 asked again, "Is everj^one here?" The stars and the clouds from all 

 different directions were there, and the only one that was missing was 



* The buckskin bundle is called teseanane. It is made by bundling different kinds of clothing and cloth 

 of all kinds in a buckskin, wrapping it very tight and tying it with rawhide thongs. The bundle is very 

 hard and resounds when struck. 



