1068 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ann.47 



\nth them an eagle dance so that the people may hare many eagles. 

 There are no eagles here. You have good places for the eagles to 

 build their nests, but you have no one to dance for the eagles. These 

 people will bring the eagles. They are good climbers. They can 

 climb the liigh mountains, and so they can get the eagles. They will 

 bring the eagles. And now, my fathers, you \nll decide whether you 

 want it. If you thinlv it will be dangerous to have them dance wdth 

 the snakes, I shall leave it to you to do as you think best. I do not 

 have to tell you what is right and what is WTong. You will know 

 what is best." 



When he had spoken thus the katcina chief said to the priests, 

 " Now, my fathers, I think we had better have this dance so that we 

 may have plenty of feathers for our people at the Sacred Lake. Now, 

 if we have this dance for the eagles the eagles will come from the 

 high mountains and stay close to Itiwana if we pray for them in a 

 dance." The katcina chief wanted to have the feathers because they 

 are valuable. They are our life. The katcina cliief is the head of the 

 dance and whatever he says is all right. The priests have nothing to 

 say; not even the chief priest can raise any objection after the katcina 

 chief has spoken. He wanted this eagle dance because he wanted 

 his children, the katcinas, to have many feathers and to be pretty. 

 So the priests said, "It is good. You have said that you want this 

 dance. It is all right." The rain people had nothing to say. They 

 left it to the katcina chief. Then he told Ms assistant, "Now you 

 shall go to the men of he'iwa kiva who want to have this Hilili dance, 

 and j'ou shall tell them to go ahead with it and practice for it. It is 

 all right." So now the men of he'iwa kiva were pleased and went 

 ahead with their dance. They had the young men dance, and the 

 older men of the kiva sang for them. 



The katcina chief did not want people without masks to come out 

 to sing for the katcinas. The Hopi chorus always dressed like human 

 people but the katcina chief here did not want that. So they decided 

 who should sing for them and how they should dress. They made 

 the Tenenakwe (singers) come out to sing for them. All the older 

 men who were too heavy to dance Hilili came as Tenenakwe. The 

 Tenenakwe do not have to be society members but they dress just 

 like members of societies. They wear a little chin mask with the 

 back of the head exposed, and they do their hair in a queue in back. 

 They wear just the dark blue kilt like the society members, and the 

 red feather in the hair. Then after they had their songs ready they 

 got their clothing together. The Hopis would not tell them what 

 the dift'erent parts of the clothing meant, so they made new ornaments 

 for the side of the head and represented different things on them- — 

 the sun and the moon and the stars. All were different. They made 

 the songs in the Zuni language but there were not many words, only 

 meaningless svllables. 



