1030 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann.47 



sometime when jou go to Itiwana. I have heard that any animal 

 who wants to come with you can meet you. I have been in the east, 

 but it is lonely there. I was lying down in my cave and I was lonely. 

 Then I heard you over here and I thought I would come here and 

 join you and go \vith you to Itiwana any time you go. The society 

 members at Itiwana have worked on feathers for me and whoever 

 has feathers can join you here. So I thought I would join you so as 

 to go to Itiwana and be happy with my people." Then Pautiwa said, 

 "We are very glad. We are happy to have you here and to know 

 that you will join us and go to Itiwana." Then he said to him, "You 

 are not just a common person. You are valuable. You are hke us 

 who look after the winter solstice." (He meant the valuable people 

 who come at the winter solstice, Pautiwa and Sayataca and Sayah'a 

 and Citsukia and Kewlele. These are the important people who look 

 after the year.) "Now we shall take you to Itiwana to-morrow. 

 Stay here with us and we shall take you with us to Itiwana." 



So when the next day came everyone got ready and all the 

 dancers asked, "Which of us shall go to Itiwana?" He did 

 not fit in with Kokokci or with Muluktaka. So Pautiwa said, 

 "Whenever any of the wild animals want to go to Itiwana they 

 always have to go with the mixed dance. The mixed dance will go 

 with him." So they began to get ready. All the dangerous ones got 

 ready to go with him. Then they began to dress him, "Now take off. 

 your fur dress," they told him. So he took off his skin and turned 

 into a person and they began to paint him. They painted his body 

 red with the katcina village clay and began to dress him the way he 

 would look. They put on the red feather because he is a society per- 

 son. They put on the yucca band and gave him nice beads. He was 

 wearing a blue loin cloth. They said to him, "Don't take off your 

 loin cloth because you are a society member." So he kept on the 

 blue loin cloth and they put the bucksldn over it. They gave him 

 arm bands and bunches of yucca. They dressed him and said, "Now 

 you will go hke this." While he was getting ready many different 

 new animals came and joined the mixed dance. All the katcinas who 

 do not live at katcina village, like Salt woman, came in and got 

 ready in the morning. 



So they took him with them to Itiwana. When the mixed dance 

 comes the people all go out to see who is coming with them, and this 

 time the bear came with them. Then the people said, "Oh, there 

 comes the bear, the society man. He has gone over there too." 

 Then aU the men in societies at Itiwana worked on feathers and in the 

 evening when the katcinas finished dancing they took the bear into 

 one of the society rooms. There the medicine chief of the society 

 gave him the big bundle of feathers to take with him to his home in 

 the east when he went back. 



