1050 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann.47 



there and this is the first time you are going. When you come to 

 Pinawa " you wdll stay there while you wait for them to begin. 

 When they begin to play there will be two sides throwing things at 

 each other. When you come close you will call out 'Hetsululu,' and 

 you will throw your clay, and if j^ou hit one of the players with your 

 clay he will go to the other side. You will always say, 'Hetsululu' 

 when you throM- your clay. Now you will go to Itiwana. There was 

 no way for you to go before, but now you can go this way. It is a 

 good plan for you to go like this." 



Over here the people were making great quantities of paper bread. 

 The third day came and they all crumbled it in willow baskets. On 

 the fourth day in the morning the bow priest called out for them to get 

 ready. So in the morning the girls made a paste of the crumbled 

 paper bread and rolled it into balls (helikwi motsa), and had them 

 ready for their brothers to use to play. Then after thej' had eaten 

 their morning meal they began. The people were living at Halonawa 

 then. They started at Halonawa, close to the sand hill. They all 

 went there calling to one another to hurry. Finally they all got there. 

 Then the war chief came and divided them into two groups, so that 

 there would be the same number on each side. Then he said, "Now 

 begin." Then they began to play, throwing the balls of paper-bread 

 dough. All the people went out there. The girls had more balls 

 ready, and when the boys ran out they came and got more balls from 

 their sisters. While they were playing this way throwing things at 

 one another the Uttle boy came in calling "Hetsululu," as he came. 

 No one was watching him but he came calling "Hetsululu." Then 

 the people looked at him and said, "Who is that coming?" Then 

 they heard him calhng and they said, "Is that Hetsididu? It must 

 be Hetsululu," the people said. "But he has no pretty clothes and 

 he doesn't look like a katcina at all." They kept sajdng it must be a 

 poor katcina who had no feathers to put around his neck, and no fur, 

 but only a poor blue skirt. So the people said. Then the bow priest 

 said, "I called out for our people to be with us. I meant that what- 

 ever we destroyed in our game to-day would belong to them. That 

 is what I meant. But now they have come here themselves. I won- 

 der if it means danger?" He said this to pekwin. Then the pekwin 

 said, "I do not think so. Maybe they just misunderstood and 

 sent this little boy in to be with us. And so he must always come 

 when we have this game, and also he shall come with the dancers 

 whenever he wants to." And so he always comes when they play 

 that game. He comes and plays with them, calling "Hetsululu." 

 The name of the game is heka-ikocnika. 



When he came back to his home at Katcina Village Pautiwa said to 

 him, "Now, my child, you have been there. Now after this when 



" A ruin about 2 miles west of Zuni on the soutb side of the river. 



