1036 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



call him down from the housetop. Then Hehe'a helps him to get the 

 honey. He cariies great branches of cedar and waves them around 

 to keep the bees fi-om stinging him. Then he complains that he has 

 been stung and asks the man to give him food to take home with him 

 because he has helped him. 



"The babies used to be cross when they were teething, and the priests 

 thought that they ought to have some medicine for the babies, and 

 they thought that they shoidd have honey to use in the medicine, and 

 they needed honey also to use in their paints to make them shiny. So 

 they thought about the bee and over at Katcina Village they heard 

 them and Pautiwa sent the bee here the way he sent the deer because 

 the people wanted him in a prayer. That is how he came. He 

 has been coming for a long time." 



Tecamika (Echo) 



(Plate i2h, C) 



Costume. — On the head the great feather (lacowanlajia) ; the mask 

 is painted black \\'ith white spots. His body is black all over. He 

 should not wear the fawn skin. He wears blue loin cloth. Coyote 

 skin around the neck. He carries a torch to burn the corrals, and 

 yamuwe, short pieces of wood with pendent feathers. 



Ceremonies. — He comes in the mixed dance. 



"He is an angry dancer, and the people are afraid of him. They 

 called him to come when the earth cracked, and since then he comes 

 with the mixed dance. He comes when it is cold, and they say he 

 brings the cold weather. 



"They say he warns the people when misfortune is coming. Any- 

 one who expects a baby will go to his home and look for omens. Last 

 year a man went there and he saw lots of turquoise, but when he 

 went to pick it up there was none there. He came back and told the 

 people, and they said it meant that the people would have lots of 

 turquoise, and a little later a man came down from Gallup with lots of 

 turquoise, and the people bought a great deal. 



"He doesn't live at Katcina Village, but in a canyon south of 

 Itiwana." 



Myth. — When the people first came here there was no Echo man. 

 Then there was an earthquake at Where-the-pine-tree-stands. 

 The people were very much afraid because the rocks were falling. 

 All the priests went there. They worked on prayer sticks and made 

 crooks and took them there and set them down to make the rocks 

 hold together so that the animals would not come out from under- 

 neath. Yet as time went on the crack got larger. Then all the priests 

 met together and said, "Wliat shall we do to make the earth come 

 together? We have heard that the Hopi know how to make the 



