1064 ZUNI KATCINAS [i:TH. ann. « 



"So when he has everything together he comes, talking to himself 

 as he comes along. Wliile his grandchildren are dancing in the west 

 plaza he comes to Wide River, and when they are nearly finished 

 dancing in rat plaza-' he comes in. Then all the people saj'', 'Oh, 

 there is their grandfather.' O'wiwi is a little ashamed to show 

 himself. His grandchildren are very angry that he has come, but 

 they can not say anything. He does not join in their line, but dances 

 up and down in front of them, making motions to interpret their 

 songs. He makes motions of the clouds and the rain and everj'tbing 

 that is mentioned in the songs. TMien they are finished his children 

 go away and he stays behind. He goes around looking at the people 

 out of the comer of his eyes. After ever3'one has gone he sits down 

 in the plaza and takes com meal out of his belt and makes a line. 

 Then he takes the wildcat and the lion and the white bear and the 

 coyote out of his bag and he sets them down on the line facing the 

 south and he prays. As he prays he turns them to each direction. 

 Then he takes his bow and arrow and asks his animals which way to 

 go. Then he goes around the plaza to each direction. He pretends 

 he is looking for the tracks of the deer. He is a great leader of the 

 hunters and he is teaching the people what to do. He makes itsumawa 

 for the hunters. After he has done this, going in evcrj- direction 

 looking for tracks, then he pretends he has caught a deer and pre- 

 tends to lay it down and take the skin off to show the people how. 

 He takes the blood and makes a mark on the nose of his animals, 

 so that they can smell the blood. Long ago he used to make a little 

 fire in the plaza and get meat from one of the houses to bum in the 

 fire to feed to the Sacred Lake people. Then he told the people, 

 'This is the way you must do, and I will get the meat and eat it. 

 And so I will give you good luck.' They do not do this any more 

 because the people do not hunt any more, but long ago they used to 

 think a great deal of O'wiwi because he brought good luck to the 

 hunters. 



"Long ago he used to carry the Eaettone of the rain priests on liis 

 back. He wore poor clothing and poor moccasins and everyone 

 thought he was poor, but he had valuable things on his back. He 

 wanted to marry a girl, but no one wanted him because he looked 

 poor. But there was one girl who lived alone with her old grand- 

 mother. They were very poor and hardly had enough to eat, and so 

 tliis girl married this man. And that night when he took off his 

 poor clothing he had many valuable things in his blanket and in a 

 few months he made them rich. The people all thought that he was 

 poor. No one hkes him. They say when he comes that he has come 

 to carry off a poor girl and make her rich." 



" The traditional circuit of the plazas is first west plaza, rat plaza, tsia'a plaza, big plaza. The circuit 

 is still made but dancing is usually confined to fsia'a plaza with one turn each day in big plaza. 



