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ZUNI KATCINAS 



because the deer was mentioned in all their songs. The society was 

 meeting in their ceremonial room to practice their songs, and the men 

 were working on prayer sticks. That night all the societies were 

 meeting to work on their prayer sticks. Then the people over in the 

 Sacred Lake made them think about the deer as they practiced their 

 songs. Their songs said, "Now we are making the road for the rab- 

 bits. Now we are making the road for the deer. Now we have all 

 the clothing of the deer; here is a deer horn; here is a deer ear; here 

 are the deer's eyes; here is the deer's skin; here is the deer's arm; here 

 is the deer's foot; here is the deer's body and his entrails." They 

 mentioned all the parts of the deer. Then they said, "Now here in 

 our house we must think about it very much so that the deer may 

 come close to us." They knew there were deer in the world, but they 

 were far away to the south. So the head man of the hunters told his 

 people that they must alwaj'S think about the deer so that they might 

 come nearer to them. "Now let the deer come to make our people 

 happier." So they said in their songs. They mentioned all the 

 deer's parts so that he might come to them complete with nothing 

 missing. 



Over at Katcina Village the people like Pautiwa and Sayataca liked 

 this song. They were far away, but they heard the song and the way 

 they asked for the deer. So the next day they all thought about it 

 and they said, "We have heard the Hunters' Society praying for the 

 deer. What do you think now? Shall we send them their deer now?" 

 Again Sayataca asked Pautiwa. Then Pautiwa said, "Not so fast. 

 AVhen someone asks for something we must not be in a hurry." They 

 were getting ready for the mLxed dance and Pautiwa said, "Now, my 

 children, practice your songs to go to Itiwana. And if now while 

 you are practicuig any of you feel that you would like to take in the 

 deer, go out and get a yoimg deer to take with you to Itiwana for our 

 people in Itiwana. Then Hehe'a went out to look for a young deer 

 and he brought it into their house. When he brought him in Pautiwa 

 made him sit down on the east side of the room and he presented him 

 to every direction. Then the young deer took off his skin (and 

 turned into a person) and said, "My father, what is it you wanted 

 me for. I want to know why you have called me in." So he said to 

 Pautiwa, and Pautiwa answered him, "I have sent for you to go to 

 Itiwana with this dance. And if you wish you may go with them 

 any time this dance goes there. You will always be in this dance and 

 we shaU dress you the way they dress. You will do this so that our 

 people at Itiwana may have good luck with your flesh and find deer 

 everywhere, to the east and to the south and to the north and to the 

 west; so that the deer may come in from all the directions and come 

 close to Itiwana so that our people may have deer meat and look 

 better than they look now because of it." He said this to the yoimg 



