30 HOPI KATCINAS [eth. a.nn.21 



Hani, tlic Piba-Tabo chief, acted the part of pipe lighter, aod, after 

 all the priests had taken their positions around the three badges of 

 the chiefs and the basket-tray containing the prayer-sticks mentioned 

 above, lit two pipes, one of which he passed to Tiirnoa and the other 

 to Hoiiyi. 



Eight songs were then sung, which Hani accompanied on a tlute. 

 During the first song Kwatcakwa ai'ose, put some meal on a feather 

 which he held horizontally, and made several passes over the sacred 

 objects. 



In the second song several rattles made of corn shells were used to 

 beat time, and Kwatcakwa sprinkled the objects with sacred meal. 

 During the third song Kotka asperged these objects with medicine 

 liquid. During the sixth and eighth songs Momi, of the Tciia clan, 

 arose, and stood before the three sacred badges of the chiefs, twirling 

 the whizzer or bull-roarer, after which he repeated the same act on 

 the roof of the kiva. 



At the close of the songs all prayed in sequence, ana the rites ended 

 with a formal smoke. The prayer-sticks were given to Sikyabotima, 

 of the Ki'ikutc clan, who ran with them as a courier to the different 

 shrines of the gods for which they had been made. 



Wahikwixema, Childken's Dance 



Two days after the winter Flute ceremony just described, 15 little 

 boys and as many girls, each about 10 j'ears old, performed a simple 

 dance in the Walpi plaza. They were dressed and painted by their 

 elders to represent katcinas, and men sang for them as thej' danced 

 like their parents, beating time on a drum. At the close of this 

 exhibition a small boy, one of their number, threw pinon nuts to the 

 spectators from a bag he carried, which gives the dance the name it 

 bears (we go throwing). 



MUCAIASTI, BUFBWLO DaNCE 



On the night of January 15, 1900. a Buffalo dance was performed in 

 the Moil kiva by two men wearing Buffalo masks. Tacab and Woe 

 katcinas wei"e represented in the Wikwaliobi kiva, Malo katcina was 

 represented in the Nacab kiva, and the bird pensonations, Kwahu, 

 Monwii, and Aiiwuci, appeared in the Tcivato kiva, accompanied b}?^ 

 many miidheads. This was apparently unconnected with the Sichumovi 

 Pamiirti or with the rites with which the Flute priests made prayer- 

 sticks, which took place in Walpi on the same day. 



In the Mucaiasti or Buffalo dance no altar is erected, ))ut the men 

 who take the part of the JNIucaias taka deposit offerings in the Buffalo 

 shrine at its close. 



The participants in the Mucaiasti of 1900 were (1) the Buffalo youths, 

 (2) the Buffalo maids, (3) the chorus. 



