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them. I do not want all of them to go, but just one." So he said 

 to his children. Then he picked out one of the boys and said, "Now 

 you will be the one to go. You are the strongest of the boys." He 

 picked out a big, heavy boy. "And now I shall dress you." 



For liis head he made a long roll of clay and painted it all over 

 with stripes of different colors and set it on his head and said, "This 

 is the way you will look when you go to visit my people, and this is 

 how you will dress to be pretty." He picked out this boy because he 

 was one of the little boys whose mothers had dropped them and who 

 had turned into snakes. Therefore he had no children and no brothers 

 and sisters, but only a father and mother. And when the people at 

 Itiwana worked on prayer sticks his father never worked on prayer 

 sticks for him. They never sent feathers for him like the others did. 

 He never had anything. When all the others got their feathers he was 

 always left out. He never came here wdth the other katcinas. He 

 had no feathers, and so he could not come to be happy with his 

 people. Pautiwa felt sorry for this boy because he never had anytliing 

 pretty and because he never could come to Itiwana. So when the}' 

 called out for the people here to be happy Pautiwa thought he would 

 send this boy. So he dressed him. The poor child! He had only 

 a poor blue kilt around his neck because he was poor and no one ever 

 looked after him and sent him pretty things. He did not have any- 

 thing pretty to wear because he never received any feathers when the 

 people planted to make the New Year or to make the w^orld gi-een. 

 That is why he has none of the pretty things that the other katcinas 

 wear, like beads and embroidered sashes and blue moccasins. He 

 comes with bare feet. And because he had no pretty things to wear 

 they painted his body with pretty colors. He did not have any 

 feathers, so Pautiwa took feathers of the sand hill crane and dipped 

 them in the sacred pink clay to make them pretty. He gave him a 

 cat-tail stalk, because he had no yucca, and he gave him beads and a 

 belt of blue leather.'* Then he painted his body. First a band of 

 black made from the clay from springs containing decaying vegetable 

 matter; next pink from the Sacred Lake clay that all the Katcina 

 Village people use; next blue made from the same paint they used for 

 their masks; next red made from sacred lake clay mixed with red 

 clay. When he was painted Pautiwa put a band of black yarn around 

 his neck, and he told his people to get clay. 



Then Hemokatsik spread out a corn husk and covered it with red 

 powder and rolled the pink clay in it to make it red. Then she molded 

 it into a nice shape. Then Pautiwa and the other katcinas looked at 

 him. "Now that is the way you will go. This is the first time you 

 will go to Itiwana," they told him. "You have never been to a dance 



*^ The drawing is incorrect. He should wear a belt of blue leather instead of the silver belt. 

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