1048 ZTJNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



Then one day the deer came here to \Miere-the-sack-of-flour-hangs, 

 and to Corn Mountain and all around, and when the people went out 

 to get wood they saw the deer close to the village and they killed 

 them easily. That is why in the old days they always had plenty of 

 deer. They asked the Katcina Village people for them and Sayataca 

 sent them to his people. That is all. 



Hetsululu ^° 

 (Plate 44, a) 



Costume. — On the head, white feathers of the sand hiU crane dyed 

 pink wath the pink clay the dancers use on theu- bodies. 



"He is the world. He is marked all over with different colors for 

 the grass and the flowers and all the pretty things in the world. His 

 face is green to make the world green, and on the face are clouds 

 coming up Uke smoke in thi'ee dii'ections. The yellow stripe around 

 the face is for the waters around the world, and the people live at 

 Itiwana, where it is green." 



Around his neck is a blue kilt, and another around his loins. In 

 the right hand he carries a stick with a ball of soft red clay at the 

 end, and in his left arm a large ball of the same clay. 



He comes in the mixed dance. 



Myth. — In the first beginning when the katcinas came here in 

 person to dance for the people there was a pekwin who wanted his 

 people to be happy. He asked the bow priest to call out for the 

 people to be happy. It was after the winter dances were over, it 

 was nearly springtmie. There was no dancing and there were no 

 games, and the sun priest said, "I want my people to be happy. I 

 do not want them to be lonely." So he asked the bow priest to 

 call out in the evening that on the fom'th day everyone should be 

 ready to play for their father, pekwin. "For oiu- father wants us 

 all to be happy, and especially the young men should be happy. 

 And the young women shall grind and make paper bread and use it 

 to be happy. Our people at Katcina Village will be with us. You 

 shall be happy here and then om- father will be happy and our people 

 at Katcina Village will be happy too." Wlien he said that he 

 meant that the katcinas would be happy with them and that they 

 would get the food that they wovdd give to them. But the people 

 in the Sacred Lake heard it and they misunderstood. 



The next day over here in Itiwana the people were all busy. The 

 guis aU ground a great deal of corn. Over at Katcina Village Pautiwa 

 said, "Last night the bow priest called out that we must be over there 

 mth our people to make their father, pekwin, happy. Now, 

 who shall go? One of our younger children should go to be with 



"This is bis call. 



