1042 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



yarn, on the left a wrist band of leather with silver. He carries 

 a crook (telnane), a stick of willow painted white with two tail 

 feathers of the eagle at the end, and a bunch of black goat's hair. 

 Formeriy they used frog's spittle (awico) dried. 



He comes in the mixed dance. 



Myth. — When the people first came here they had no sheep, and they 

 lived on corn and wild seeds and they hunted rabbits and ate fresh 

 rabbit meat and during the winter they caught snowbirds. So during 

 the winter at Ca'lako or during the winter rain dances, or at any time 

 when they were going to have a feast, the men would go out and hunt 

 rabbits and birds. They would bring in about two rabbits and only 

 two or three birds. They had only a httle bit to eat. And if a man 

 were not lucky he would have only three or four httie birds. They 

 skinned the birds and boiled or roasted them with ground squash 

 seeds for their feasts. And they cut up the rabbits and roasted or 

 boiled them with com meal. That is aU they had. At that time 

 there were no deer around here, so they had no deer meat. So 

 when their feast days came they cooked their little animals and put 

 their offerings of food in the fire for the people at Katcina Village. 



Over at Katcina Village was Sayataca. He spoke to P'autiwa and 

 said, " You are the headman. Now what do you think? Our people 

 in Itiwana are having a hard time to live. They have no delicacies.'^ 

 They do not look well because they always eat only one kind of food. 

 What do you think? Our people ought to have fresh meat. Espe- 

 cially on their feast days they should have something to make them 

 feel better. Now they have only httle animals and they last only 

 one meal. What do you thinlc about their having deer?" So he 

 said. "Yes," said Pautiwa. "Everything that they have needed 

 they have always asked for in their prayers. They ask us for every- 

 thing they need, but they have never asked us for deer. Let us wait 

 and see if they mention deer. They always pray for rabbits and 

 birds, and especially they always ask about all kinds of birds and 

 all the things they Uve on, but they have never mentioned that they 

 should have deer. We shaU Hsten and see if they ever ask us for deer." 

 He spoke thus. He did not say, "All right, we shall send them deer. " 

 He wanted to wait imtU the people here shoidd ask for it in a prayer. 

 So Sayataca said, "All right. That is up to you. We shall do as you 

 say. We shall wait for them to mention it in their prayers." 



Over here the Hunters' Society called out for a rabbit hunt. They 

 told the people all to go to hunt rabbits so that they might have 

 fresh meat for their feast. So they called it out from the top of 

 the house. "I wish now, my people, that you shall go to the south 

 side and wait there. ^Vhen all of you reach there we shall look around 

 on the south side at the place called Where-the-sack-of-flour-hangs. 



" Yepnawe, any food besides corn. 



