BuxzEL] DANCES OF THE WINTER AND SUMMER SERIES 1035 



"What shall she carry?" Then they said, "You shall cany the crook 

 that the rain priests make from Euh.'" This is the way you shall go. " 

 So they gave her a crook. So she was ready and she came with them 

 in the mixed dance. They came in in the night and the next morning 

 the mixed dance came out. There she was. No one knew that she 

 was Salt woman. Then they found out that she was Salt woman. 

 She glistened all over just like salt. Then they went to the kiva and 

 asked the katcinas if she was really Salt woman. They said, "Yes, 

 she is really Salt woman. She is Hving to the south, and she came to 

 Katcina Village and asked to come with us so that you people might 

 work on the feathers for her. That is why she has come with us. " 

 Then right away the katcina chief and his pek\\dn and all the priests 

 worked on feathers for her to take back home. In the evening when 

 they had finished their dance and the katcinas were ready to go home 

 they took her into the ceremonial room of the priests. Then the 

 priests gave her the feathers and said, "Our mother, you have come. 

 You used to be close to us, but you have gone away and now 3'ou 

 live in the south. You have gone to the Sacred Lake and have come 

 here with our people. We are glad you have come. We shall always 

 work on feathers for you. Do not hide yourself from us. Always 

 come and we shall always be glad to see you. Now here, you shall 

 have these for j'our clothing. " Then they gave her the bundle of 

 prayer sticks to take back with her when she went to the south. 



Then the katcinas went back to Katcina Village and Salt woman 

 went to the south with her feathers, and she made the road for the 

 people to come to her when they needed salt. That is why we have 

 Salt woman come in the mixed dance, and that is why the people 

 always work on feathers when they go to the Salt Lake. They give 

 her feathers to bring the salt. Sometimes, they say, she runs away 

 and there is no salt, but only lots of water. That is how she conies, 

 and she carries the crook of the rain priests to bring rain. She brings 

 the rain as well as the salt. 



Ohapa (Bee) 



(Plate 43, 6) 



Costume. — He has flowers all over the top of his head. They are 

 made of com husks cut up and dyed different colors and sewed together 

 with sinew. The bees are made of cotton or wool shaped and painted 

 and set on thin wires. He wears a bunch of blue feathers sticking 

 out behind. He has honey hidden under the flowers on the top of 

 his head. 



Ceremonies. — He comes in the mbced dance, and Hehe'a always 

 comes with him to get the honey from his head. When he comes 

 Hehe'a picks out a man from the crowd of spectators and the Koyemci 



'° I have not been able to identify this plant. It is much used lor prajrer sticks. 



