1074 ZUNI KATCINAS [eth. ank. 47 



" They got tliis dance from the Apache the way they got the Sioux 

 dance. They copied the dress from a picture. The songs are in the 

 Zuni language, but they are very hard to sing because they shout 

 with a strong voice like the Apache." 



It is danced in winter. (See Parsons, Winter and Summer Dance 

 Series, page 177.) 



WiLATSUKW'OKA. 



(Plate 51, d) 



Chin mask painted white with designs on cheeks in red and blue. 

 Hair loose. Headband of colored yarn with three upright downy 

 feathers on right, ornament of red feathers on left, horsehair, colored 

 cahco sldrt and over that sleeveless shirt of fringed buckskin orna- 

 mented with shells and porcupine cjuill embroidery. Full skirt of 

 calico, white woman's moccasins, in back hand two eagle tail feathers 

 with fringe of horsehair. 



Comes with Wilatsukwe. 



L.\'PILAWE 



(Plate 50, (;) 



He wears a headdress of eagle feathers around the head and hanging 

 down the back or fastened to yarn headband. Buckskin shirt with 

 sleeves and embroidered with beads, fringed leggings of white or 

 brown buckskin, Navaho blanket or buckskin kilt folded around the 

 loins. No sash, only a red woven belt. Fox skin. He carries bow 

 and arrows. Carries stone knife in right hand and in left a battle-ax 

 or lance. 



A number of them come in the Sioux dance, to dance. 



" This dance used to belong to the Sioux. The people here, especially 

 the society people, need the fur of the buffalo for their ceremonies. 

 They used to use bear skin to cover their arms when they had their 

 curing ceremonies in the winter, but for a long time thej' have not 

 been able to kill anj' bears around here on accoimt of the white people, 

 and so they use buffalo skin instead. 



"So about ten years ago the katcina chief and the other headmen 

 met to talk about it. They thought they would like to have a buffalo 

 dance come here. They thought that if the buffalo came here all the 

 fur-bearing animals like the bear would come near to Itiwana, so that 

 the society people could use their fur in their ceremonies. We had 

 heard that there was a Sioux man living at Gallup, so one man went 

 up to Gallup to get this man to give him their songs for the buffalo. 

 The man went there and got the songs and made Zuni words for it. 

 Then the Sioux man drew a picture of how the buffalo looked in the 

 dance, and he brought it back here and they made this dance. They 



