BUNZEL] SUPPLEMENTARY AND EXTRA DANCES 1069 



So when the time came after they had fixed up the ornaments for 

 the head and the feathers, and when they had everything ready, they 

 began to dance. They brought in with them the two Eagle katcinas. 

 Their arms were covered with eagle feathers and they had feathers on 

 their heads and wore downy feathers all over. They came in and 

 everyone liked them. First the Tenenakwe came in, and then Hilili 

 came in, and last of all the two eagles. They looked so pretty that 

 everyone liked them right away. The kiva chief was leading the 

 dance and he danced in the middle. Then he went around to the 

 • four comers of the plaza and came to where the singers were standing. 

 He stood among them and the one who was beating the drum watched 

 his head and when he nodded he started to beat the drum and then 

 they all began to sing. The kiva chief began to dance right there 

 among the singers. Then the Hilili dancers began. They lined up on 

 the north side of the plaza and began to dance. Then they danced 

 and when they went in to rest the singers staj'ed there in the plaza. 

 Then the dancers came out again and danced. 



Then in the evening when they were through dancing the katcina 

 war chief took the Eagle katcinas. They still had their paper bread 

 from their dinner in the kiva. So when they were through dancing 

 they took their paper bread and the katcina war chief took them to 

 Corn Mountain. He had corn meal with him, and he said, "Now, 

 mj" fathers, you have come here from the west. You have come 

 here to call the eagles from where they are staying. Call the eagles 

 from the west and from the south and from all the different direc- 

 tions so that the Itiwana people may have feathers for their dancers." 

 So he said and sprinkled corn meal on them and made the road for 

 them to go to Com Mountam to build their nests there. Then the 

 men took off their masks at Corn Mountain and said to their masks, 

 "Now, our father has told j^ou to stay here and to call the eagles to 

 build their nests in this place. You are the ones to make the eagles 

 come here. Now we shall leave you here on this mountain." So 

 they said and then they dressed there and brought back their masks 

 and clothing to Itiwana. 



So that is why there are always eagle nests on Corn Mountain and 

 all the people from the different villages come here to Itiwana to get 

 eagle feathers. The Hopis brought their eagle dance here and since 

 then we have had many eagles. But the Hopis have given away their 

 dance and so they now have bad luck with eagles in their own country". 

 And that is whj* whenever Hilili comes the eagles always go out earlj" 

 before the other katcinas leave, and go with their lunch to Corn 

 Mountain to call the eagles. They do not always go to Corn Moun- 

 tain, but sometimes they go other places to other mountains. But 

 they go out ever^- night. If they dance more than one day they go 

 out each evening and come back the next dav and dance. 



