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the katcinas go to Itiwana you will always go with the mixed dance. 

 You will be best in there. And you will always go dressed hke that, 

 because if you go that way the people will never forget that it is because 

 no one made feathers for you. Aiid maybe now they will make 

 feathers for you." Pautiwa thought that, but the people never 

 did it. 



That is why Hetsululu always comes in the nuxed dance. They 

 do not play the game any more, they dropped it about twenty years 

 ago, but Hetsululu comes with the mixed dance and throws his little 

 clay balls. And that is why the people are always very careful to 

 plant feathers for their people at Katcina Village." 



ICAN A'TSAN A-TCI (GreASE BoYs) 

 (Plate 44, 6) 



Costume. — Their masks are all black. On the head and in the ears 

 "spoon " feathers from the shoulder of the eagle. Collar of fawn skin. 



"Their bodies are black and covered all over with grease and soot. 

 They eat greasy things and rub the grease all over their bodies. 

 They never wash. They just paint white from the navel to the 

 knees for the sun. All they wear are dark blue kilts and embroidered 

 sashes caught between the legs hke a breechcloth. They go bare- 

 foot. But they have many strings of different kinds of beads aroimd 

 their necks and beads on both WTists like all the valuable katcinas." 



Ceremonies. — There are always two of them and they take turns 

 carrying one another on their backs. They come in the mixed dance. 



They do not hve at Katcina Village but at sand hill south of Zuni. 



Myth. — There are two grease boys who Uve with their grandmother 

 on the sand hill south of Itiwana. They cat gi'easy things and rub the 

 grease all over their bodies and in their hair, and they never \vash. 

 They are happy boys. They hve on the liill and eat rats. They go 

 to the holes and dig them out and kill the mice and bring them to 

 their grandmother, who roasts them in the ashes. They are very 

 poor, but still they iiave many valuable beads to wear. 



Long ago their mother and father went to the Sacred Lake and left 

 the little boys behind and left their grandmother there with them. 

 Once they were sitting out on the rocks in the evening. At that 

 time the people were U\ang at Halonawa and the men were coming 

 home in the e\ening carrying wood by means of a band around the 



'* The game lo which this story refers was played ceremonially until about twenty years ago. Each 

 player has six halls of paper-bread dough "a little larger than our heads." They play untU all their balls are 

 used up and stop at about five o'clock in the evening. Hetsululu uses Uttle balls of clay, and therefore doesn't 

 use up his material .so fast. It is believed, however, that his clay keeps increasing as fast :is he uses it up. 

 The bow priest always calls out, " The raw boy is coming to bring us clay from the Sacred Lake. Watch 

 for it and keep it to increase your com and all your crops. Whoever catches one of his balls should take 

 it to his home and keep it for good luck with his crops." Then ever>-one goes out. No one stays home, 

 but everyone goes out to watch for the little clay balls, .^nd whoever catches one takes it home and puts 

 il in his com room to increase his com and paper bread so that his food w-ill increase as fast as it is use<l up. 



