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Finally Paiitiwa and Sayataca called him over and asked him, 

 "Have you been out during; the night?" At first he said, "No." 

 Then they said again, "Please tell us. We do not want anyone to go 

 and do anything wTong in the night. You must only go out in the 

 daytime. Now are you sure you were not out at night?" Then he 

 said, "Yes, I was out." Then they asked him, "WTiat were you 

 doing?" He said, "I was hunting." "How many nights have you 

 gone?" He said, "I have gone out for four nights." "What did 

 you hunt? Deer?" "No, I went to the south and I hunted tur- 

 keys." Then they asked him, "How many tm-keys did you kill?" 

 "I have killed four turkeys." "Now go out to where you left the 

 turkeys and bring them right in. These turkeys are valuable and 

 you have hurt them. Our fathers send their feathers here to us for 

 our clothing. You have done wTong to kill them." 



So the little Nahalico went out and brought in the tm-keys he had 

 caught. They were all torn up and their feathers were spoiled. There 

 were fom- of them. He brought them in and laid them down in front 

 of Pautiwa. Then they all talked about it, and I^autiwa said, "Oh, 

 this is a wicked thing that you have done. These are our clothing, 

 their wings, and their breasts." Then he said, "Now, my son, 

 whenever the katcinas go to Itiwana you wall wear these stift' feathers 

 because you have done wrong. No one cares for these feathers and 

 so you wdll always wear them because you have done this bad thing." 

 So Pautiwa said and he pulled out the stiiT wing feathers of the turkeys 

 and tied httle tiny feathers to their tips and put them on Nahalico. 

 Before that he had worn pretty soft feathers lil^e the other katcinas, 

 but they took them away from him and gave him these because he 

 had hm-t the turkeys. 



So that is how he comes. None of the other katcinas wear the stiff 

 feathers, only he, because he did wrong. He hurt the turkeys. The 

 people of Itiwana need the tiu-keys for their feathers, but he went 

 and killed them in the night. And so he wears no feathers any place. 

 And that is why his name is NahaUco, which means a foohsh person. 

 Parallels. — Laguna, Ts'a-p' Nawish. Parsons, Notes on Ceremonialism at 

 Laguna, Figure 11. San Felipe nawic (Bunzel, Note on San Felipe, 

 J. A. F. L., 292). 



CULAWITSI KOHANA 



(Plate 54, c) 



He dresses like Culawitsi when he comes for initiation of boys — 

 carries yucca, wears fringe of hair for a kilt. Body painted white 

 with spots. 



