1056 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. asn. 47 



"The bear went to the Sacred Lake and they dressed him this way. 

 Before there had been another bear katcina who still sometimes comes 

 with the mixed dance. They didn't have this kind long ago." 

 Compare other Bear katcina, page 1031. 



DANCES PERFORMED AFTER CA'LAKO 



Hemucikwe 



(Plate 47, a) 



Costnme. — He represents the earth and the skj^. On his head a 

 high wooden tablet painted with the sun and moon and clouds and 

 stars. The moon is yellow, the background is dark " to represent the 

 dark earth after the rain." The tablet is made of wood and is worn 

 over the top of the head. Two eagle tail feathers and a bunch of owl 

 feathers beliind. 



The face is green on one side and yellow on the other. The nose is 

 a band of white and a band of black (kucokta). The painting on the 

 side of the face is called "little clouds sticking up" (lakwelanapa). 



■'AATien they sweat the clouds come out of the sides of the face. 

 Their bodies are the earth and have springs in them like the earth, 

 and they hold up the sky with the sun and moon and stars. 



" They wear spruce all over to make the earth green, on the back of 

 the head, around the neck, and branches in their hands." 



The body paint is made of black cornstalks (kekwi). They wear 

 light-blue kilt, arm bands of blue leather, j^arn aroimd the neck and 

 legs, bells on left leg, turtle rattle on right, gourd rattle in right hand. 



There are only six Hemucikwe masks. They are all different and 

 they are never changed. But they are the personal property of the 

 man who had them made. One belongs to the informant's father, who 

 had it made when he was a young man. His xmcle had one, and they 

 were afraid that the mask would be buried ^\^th him when he died. 

 So he had it copied so that the number would not decrease. 



This dance belongs to Muhewa kiva, who always dance it after 

 Ca'lako. Parsons reports Mitotaca coming with this dance. On first 

 mesa a similar figure (sio humis taamu, Fewkes, Hopi Katcinas, 

 PI. V) comes -with the Sia (Zuni) Humis. 



References. — Hemucikwe is one of the common and conspicuous dances at 

 Zuni. It is described by Stevenson, Zuni Indians, page 264, Plate LXXIV; 

 Parsons, Zuni Ca'lako. 



Parallels. — This is one of the widely distributed pueljlo dances. 



Hopi. — Humis katcina, Fewkes, pages 82 and 83; Plate XXI. 



In most villages it is danced at niman katcina, the departure of the katcinas in 

 summer. On first mesa there is a Sia (Zuni) Humis. (Fewkes, Plate V.) 



Laguna. — Hemish, Parsons, Notes on Laguna Ceremonialism 99. 



Cochiti. — Ahaye. Illustrated, Dumarest, VI, 1. A summer dance of the 

 ahaye described by Dumarest, page 179 et seq. On this occasion they are accom- 



