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one of the Sichumovi kivas, and their danee was prat-tically the same 

 as that which has been elsewhere described. " 



Fourth Art 



This act consisted of a dance by men re))resentinj( Tcakwaina 

 katcinas. 



Flftl, Act 



One of the Sichumovi kivas contributed to this series a dance bv a 

 number of masked men representing Tacab (Navaho) katcinas, who 

 were accompanied by two mudheads or clowns. 



Sixth Act 



This dance was the most exciting of all the exhibitions in this con- 

 tinuous performance. The dramatis persona were Tumas, Huhuan, 

 and ten personations of Tufiwup, the flogger, all of whom came from 

 the ]\Ion kiva of Walpi. 



The most exciting event in this dance M'as a flogging act by the last 

 mentioned. During the dance a ring was drawn with meal on the 

 floor, and one of their number stepped within it, dancing all the 

 while, and two of his comrades struck him as hard as they could with 

 \'ucca boughs on naked back, arms, legs, and abdomen. Shortly after 

 this many spectators, men and women, stepped forward and received 

 similar floggings on ])ared legs and arms. 



ADVEXT OF THE SUN GOD, AHLL 



The Powamu sun god arrives in the kiva, where he is said to rise * 

 on the night of February 1. Certain rites attend that event, but his 

 advent in public occurs on the following morning (Fe})ruary 2) at sun- 

 rise. The man who is to personate the sun god dresses and masks 

 himself at the shrine, Wala, on the trail to Hano, and just as the sun 

 reddens the east he starts up the trail, guided by the Katcina chief. 

 His dress and the symbolism of his mask can be known by consulting 

 the tigure which the artist has drawn of him, but a brief reference to 

 his acts may tind a place in the general account of Powamu. 



The advent of the sun personator is described elsewhere as follows:'' 



Just as the sun rose the two [Ahiil and the chief] visited a kiva in Hano. 

 Stooping down in front of it, Ahiil drew a vertical mark with meal on the inside of 

 the front of the hatchway, on the side of the entrance opposite the ladder. He 

 turned to the sun and made six silent inclinations, after which, standing erect, 

 he bent his head backward and began a low rumbling growl, and as he bent his 

 head forward raised his voice to a high falsetto. The .«ound he emitted was one 



oJournal o£ American Ethnology and Archneology, vol, ii. 1892. 



6 The use of the same word for his appearance and for sunrise is siguificaut. Aliiil may be 

 translated The Returning One. 

 cFifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington. 1N97, p. ■i". 



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