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living right here. So everyone made prayer sticks and Tecamikia 

 took them in a bundle to the sacred lake. When he got there he 

 gave his bmidle of feathers to Pautiwa, and Pautiwa set down the 

 prayer sticks he got from Tecamikia. Then he saw that the boy 

 was a human person and had no mask. He was not a katcina at all, 

 so he took all his feathers to the Sacred Lake. 



Then everyone came to get his feathers. They picked them out 

 and said, "This is mine," or "My father made this for me." Each 

 one knew his prayer sticks, and knew that his people at Itiwana had 

 made them for him. So all the people there had their prayer sticks, 

 and they were happy. Then after they had their prayer sticks they 

 prayed for their people in Itiwana. They thanked them and prayed 

 for a strong breast for them in answer to their prayer. 



Then Ya'ana came in. IJe was ugly. He had been out hunting 

 and he came in. He looked around and everyone had prayer sticks. 

 Then he said, "Where is mine?" He went around asking everyone 

 for his prayer stick. Then he came to Pautiwa and said, "Where is 

 mine?" Then Pautiwa said, "Everyone has prayer sticks but you." 

 Then he said "Ya'ana!" ^^ Then Pautiwa said, "That is a good 

 name for you. You went out himting when you should have stayed 

 here to get yom* prayer sticks, and now no one will give anything 

 to you." 



That is why he has the name Ya'ana, and he always says "Ya'ana! " 

 when he comes in to Itiwana to dance. The Koyemci always make 

 fun of him and say to hmi, "If you don't like it why have you come? " 



NatsiKo (Young Deee) 



(Plate 43, a) 



Costume. — On the head deer antlers (saiyawe). At the back of the 

 head sticking up tail feathers of the eagle. At the base of the eagle 

 feathers a bunch of owl feathers to bring the rain. He wears strips 

 of red flannel instead of downy feathers, "so that all these things 

 may come easily. Ho has big ears with red inside. His nose is 

 black and his face green." The back of the mask is painted to look 

 like the skin of a young deer. Spruce collar 



He wears a white cotton shirt, but long ago he never wore a shirt 

 at ail. He wears an embroidered blanket folded and fastened on 

 the right shoulder, and embroidered kilt, a white-fringed sash, and a 

 red woman's belt. On the legs fringed leggings of white buckskin, 

 ■w"ith bands of black yarn on both legs. Blue moccasins, fox skin in 

 back. He has no rattle. Necklace of cedar berries with j^arn and 

 beads. Beads on both wrists. On the right WTist a band of black 



" An eiclamation of distress. 



