1058 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



for the people who have gone outside to ease themselves. If they find 

 men or women sitting down under their blankets they whip them. 

 So no one likes Mahetinaca. 



"They come for the winter rain dance series (koyuptconawa). Onlj^ 

 Hekapawa kiva dances Mahetinaca. They used to give it after 

 Ca'lako, but no one likes this dance so they stopped giving it then, 

 and hekiapawa always dance Wotemla now instead." 



The mahetinaca are not married. Their song tells why they have 

 never married. They are jealous of the other katcinas who have 

 wives. There is a story about this." 



Mi/tJi. — "\ATien Mahetinaca came here to dance long ago at the first 

 beginning, one of them did not want to come in with the others. He 

 wanted to bring in a deer to please the people, so he said to his 

 brothers, "I am going this way. I am going to look around." He 

 meant he was going to hunt, for that is the way we say. So he went 

 toward the mountains to the place called Where-the-cotton-hangs 

 (Uhanapana). He went there and he found a spring, and he saw the 

 tracks of some one. He said, "This spring is used by some people. 

 I shall look around and see if anyone is living here. I would like 

 to see them before I go to the dance." So he said. He had gone 

 there to hunt but now he had forgotten all about hunting because 

 he had seen people's tracks. He looked around but he could not 

 find anyone. Finally, to the north of the spring he found a little 

 house. It was evening and there he was still at the spring. Just 

 before dark he saw a light to the north and he said, "Yes, that is 

 where the people come from whose tracks I saw at the spring. I 

 think these must be the people who always get their water there. 

 I will go to the house and if there are no people there to give me my 

 evening meal I will go back to my home." So he thought, and he 

 went toward where he saw the light. 



He came in and there were the bat girls. They were all worried 

 about their husband. Their husband was a Kakima boy. There 

 were about eight bat girls and one butterfly girl, and they had one 

 husband between them. They were all married to this Kakima boy. 

 He was the son of the chief priest and he was a handsome youth. He 

 had a nice father, but he did not know any better than to marry these 

 girls. One day Mhen the Kakima boy was out hunting he came to 

 the spring and while he was kneeling down to drink the bat girls 

 came and sat down on the rocks watching him. Then the eldest one 

 said to her younger sisters, "Take that little piece of stone and throw 

 it down. Then he will look up and see us and talk to us." Then 

 the next bat girl took up a pebble and dropped it down where he was 

 drinking. Then he looked up and said, "Who is that?" There ail 

 the girls were sitting on the rocks. They were pretty girls. 



