52 HOPI KATCINAS [f.th. asn. 21 



RESUMF. OF EVENTS IN PALI lA' KONTr IN 19(>0 



Fehrttary 11^. On this day corn was planted in thi'cp kivas, the 

 Moil kiva, Tcivato kiva of Walpi, and the plaza kiva of Hano. This 

 corn was daily watered and the kivas were heated so that the seeds 

 might sprout. The miniature cornfield was later made of these sprouts. 

 Children are not allowed to know that the corn is thus planted before 

 the exhibition. The planting of corn seeds has given the name "'Corn 

 planting'' to Faliiliikofiti, just as the one of beans in a like way gave 

 the name "Bean planting" to the Powamii, but these names char- 

 acterize incidents not the true purpose of the festival. 



Ft'l>rmiry 26. About two weeks after the corn seeds were planted 

 the effigies of the Great Serpent were brought into the three kivas 

 above mentioned at nightfall, when the rehearsals of the acts to be 

 given later took place. 



February 27 ( Yunyu). This day was devoted to the preparation 

 of the paraphernalia, and at sundown there was a rehearsal of the 

 Great Serpent acts, as also on the following day. 



March 1 {KoiiioliotoJiya). In addition to the I'ehearsals in the kiva, 

 masked men representing Wupamau. Honaii, Hehea, Mucaias, Wuyok, 

 Soyan ep, and Samo wiiqtaka katcinas appeared in the plazas. Thej' 

 dressed and masked themselves at Wala (The (Jap), and marched up 

 the trail into Hano, where they gathered at the kiva hatches, and held 

 an animated conversation with the chief of the kiva, who came to the 

 hatchway for that purpose. 



March % (Tofol'ya). Many masked men were seen throughout the 

 day in the three East mesa pueblos. Early in the afternoon there 

 were noticed in Hano three Woe katcinas, each with a chevron mark 

 on the face, and one Wupamau, or Big High Skj- god, bearing the 

 svm mask", and held by a mudhead priest l>y a rope tied about his 

 loins. In Walpi shortly afterward two small boys dressed and masked 

 to represent Masauu went from one kiva to another, standing on the 

 hatch and beating the ladder with bundles of sticks. 



Late in the afternoon the chief kiva of Hano sent to all the kivas 

 on the East mesa a delegation of masked men representing Mucaias, 

 Buffalo; Wupamau, Big High Sky (sun) god; Honau, Bear; Ahote; 

 Citoto; Tcanaii; Wukokoti; and many mudheads. They went from 

 one kiva entrance to another, holding conversations with the kiva 

 chiefs and in various ways amusing the spectators. 



About sundown the men of the two Walpi kivas carried their snake 

 effigies to the main spring of the pueblo, the home of Paliiliikon, 

 called Tawapa, Sun spring, where they performed ceremonies, while 

 the men of Hano took their serpent effigies to a spring called 



"The symbols of this mask resemble those of Tawa (sun) disks, and those of the masks of Ahiil, 

 Ahiilani, and Wuwiiyomo, showing that the latter are probably the same sun gods under different 

 clan names. 



