1040 ZTJNI KATCINAS [eth. ann.47 



home." Then the katcina chief said, "To the south, because that is 

 where he made the earth close. That is where he will live. Now 

 we shall take you and show you where your home will be. And 

 hereafter any time when our children, the katcinas, come here you 

 may come with them." So the katcina chief took him to the south 

 and gave him a home, and that is how he happens to Uve in the south. 

 We call that place Echo House, and when the mixed dance comes, he 

 comes with them. The priests made batons for him. because he had 

 nothing pretty to wear or to carry. 



When the earth was closed the people were happy, and they called 

 the mixed dance to come and dance for Echo man. They called the 

 sacred lake people to send the mixed dance to please him. When 

 he heard the dancers coming he came carrying his baton. He got 

 here about noon when they were dancing in the west plaza. He 

 could not speak the Zuni language and all he could say was what 

 people said to him. So whenever anyone spoke to him he repeated 

 what they said. So they called him Echo man. He came from the 

 Hopi, not from here, and he doesn't live at Katcina Village with the 

 other katcinas, but in the south at Echo House. 



Ya'ana 

 (Plate 42, c) 



Costume. — On the head yellow parrot feathers. Sticking up at 

 back one tail feather of the eagle. At the left side of the head a 

 downy feather, on the right side a red feather. Black wool over the 

 head. 



He wears a dark blue woven kilt as a poncho. Around the neck a 

 band of porcupine quill embroidery, beads, and a strip of red flannel. 

 Red flannel on right wrist. Light blue kilt, red belt, cloth leggings, 

 brown moccasins. Fox sldn. 



He sometimes comes with HUili or at any time during the winter 

 dance series. He also comes with the mixed dance. 



Myth. — Over at the Sacred Lake Pautiwa said that everyone should 

 stay in and dance because the people at Itiwana were working on prayer 

 sticks for the katcinas. The katcinas at Katcina Village always know 

 when they wUl get their prayer sticks, just as we know when to expect 

 our pay checks, and on those days no one goes out to hunt because 

 they all want to be at home to get their feathers when the people of 

 Itiwana send them there. But on that day one of the katcinas went 

 out anyway. 



Here at Itiwana was a witch boy who had been turned into a 

 Tecamika.^' Then the katcina chief wanted everyone to work on 

 feathers for him because he did not stay at the Sacred Lake. He was 



