BUNZEL] DANCES OF THE WINTER AND SUMMER SERIES 1043 



When we all come together there we shall look around and we shall 

 use our warm arms " and perhaps some of our people at Katcina Village 

 will wish to lend us their arms. That is all, " he said. He never 

 asked for the deer, he just called out for the rabbits. Everyone 

 listened to him. 



They were going to plant their feathers (for the dance) on the 

 fifth day. So he called out for four days, and when the fourth day 

 came he called out again in the morning. He said, "Let everyone 

 get ready as soon as possible and go to the place Where-the-sack-of- 

 flour-hangs and see what luck we have. And let everyone take lunch 

 with him to feed our people at the sacred lake." He spoke thus. 

 Then he went to the place Where-the-sack-of-flour-hangs and he got 

 there first and he built a lire there. Finally the people got ready for 

 their hunt and ever\-one had his paper bread ready and they all went. 

 When they got to Where-the-sack-of-flour-hangs there he was. He 

 had already built a fire, the bow priest of the Hunters' Society. So 

 everyone took his paper bread and put it into the fire and said, 

 "Here, grandfathers, eat. And whoever has had good luck in hunt- 

 ing please lend me your hand and your thoughts." So they said as 

 they put the paper bread into the fire. Then after they had fed our 

 people they ate. 



Then the bow priest made the four "holes." He ran in a circle, 

 saying, "Now, my children, you stay right here and do not go outside, 

 and increase here so that my people may kill you. " Then the people 

 went in after him and hunted the rabbits inside the circle. He made 

 four circles like this. They call them holes. After they had finished 

 hunting in the tour holes he said to them, "Now do as you please and 

 have a good time. Play aroimd everywhere and kill rabbits wherever 

 you see them. " So finally they killed lots of rabbits. Some killed 

 as many as eight, and others killed four. Some had more, some less, 

 and they had their meat for their feast. 



When they came home they sent the girls out to wait for the boys 

 who had killed the most. Then the girls who had no brothers to hunt 

 for them went out to wait for the boys to give them rabbits when they 

 came home. They ground a great deal of meal, and they cooked 

 dried squash and baked sweet corn bread to pay for the rabbits. As 

 the boys came in carrying their rabbits they gave them to the girls, 

 one or two rabbits and maybe a jack rabbit. Then the girl took the 

 rabbits right in to her mother, and her mother said, "The rabbit is 

 worth a good squash," or "The jackrabbit is worth so much meal." 

 Then the girl put the squash or meal into a bowl and took it over to 

 the boy's house the same evening. 



That is the way they had their hunt. They never thought about 

 the deer. Then the headman of the Hunters' Society thought of it, 



I* The people of Itiwana are "cooked, " while the rabbits, like the katcinas, are raw persons. 



