BuszEL] DANCES OF THE WINTER AND SUMMER SERIES 1047 



In the afternoon, when the sun turns over (about two o'clock), the 

 dancers went into the kiva to take a rest after their dance and the 

 Koj-emci were playing in the plaza. Then Coyote came running after 

 the young deer to show the people how to hunt. He bent down over 

 his cane pretending to smell the deer tracks. Then the Koyemci said 

 "Look at our little grandson! What is he doing? He is smelling 

 another httle grandcldld. He is gomg to kill him and eat him up!" 

 Then the Koyemci said, "Our friend (kihe) had better come and look 

 around him and see how Coyote Idlls the deer. Maybe he won't eat 

 it all up and what is left will spoil." Then the Koyemci said again, 

 "Our friend had better come down and wait until he kills the deer and 

 then he should take the body to lais house." Then all the men came 

 down from the housetops. One man was in such a hurry that he 

 rushed down and got there before any of the others and waited around 

 in the plaza. He borrowed a bow and arrow from one of the houses 

 facing the plaza and helped Coyote make a noose. The httle deer 

 ran and hid behind the Koyemci, but they ran after him and finally 

 caught him around the neck. Then the Uttle deer fell down and pre- 

 tended to die. Then the man came up and Coyote told him how to 

 kill the deer. He held liis mouth and touched him aU over and pre- 

 tended he was no longer warm. Then he pretended to skin him. Then 

 right away the man took hold of the little deer and put him on his 

 back and carried him to liis home to bring good luck to the people. 



That is the way they showed them how to kill the deer. And after 

 they had finished their dance the dancers went back in the evening 

 and the Uttle deer went back again too. The man brought him home 

 and laid him down with liis head to the east and covered hmi aU over 

 \\-ith an embroidered blanket and all the people in the house sprinkled 

 corn meal on him. After a Httle while he got up and they sprinkled 

 water on his head, dipping up the water with an ear of corn. Then 

 they said, "This is the way we shaU get good luck so that the deer 

 may come close for us to have good meat." Then they WTapped up 

 paper bread for him and gave it to him to take home so he might 

 send them good luck. This man had also taken Coyote home with 

 him. After it was dark they came out and went back home to Katcina 

 Village. 



"V\Tien they came to Katcina Village Pautiwa and Sayataca said, 

 "Now, did you do as we told you?" They said, "Yes, and the people 

 were all pleased and were much interested, and we were very happy 

 to have the Httle deer with us." Then T^autiwa said, "Now, my httle 

 child, you have been to Itiwana, and any time the katcinas go there 

 for the mixed dance you may go with them if you wish. And any- 

 thing like that that our people do not have we shall send to them in 

 this way. And now after this the deer will be close to their \illage. 

 There are many deer around here in all directions, and now they 

 must all go to Itiwana for our people have called to us for them." 



