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prayed, and each of the nine elders followed in succession. The ten 

 youths did not pray, but each took his trumpet [gourd] and, stepping 

 one stride into the pool, stooped over, and, placing the bulbous end 

 to his mouth with the small oritice on the surface of the water, 

 trumpeted three or four times. Each of the youths then dipped up 

 a little water in his trumpet and poured it into a vase. 



"The effigy bearers then dipped the tip of the serpents' heads and 

 the ends of the hawk-tail plumes in the pool, and the leader said a 

 short prayer and started back up the trail." 



Certainl}' the most remarkable of all the masked men who appeared 

 that da}' were the two personations of a being called Tcanaii katcina. 

 They wore circular masks with feathers projecting from the periphery 

 and carried in their mouths realistic stufled effigies of rattlesnakes, 

 while over the eyes of the masks were fastened carved wooden effigies 

 of lizards. Although these masks suggest the custom of the well- 

 known Snake dance, not the Snake clan but the Pakab clan is said to 

 have introduced this ceremony into the Walpi ferial calendar. 



March 3 {Tthibii). On the day after the acts in the kivas there 

 was a public dance of the Aiiya katcinas in the Walpi plaza. During 

 this dance grinding stones were placed in the middle of the open 

 space by the Snake rock. l)ehind which two girls representing Aiij'a 

 katcina manas took their position, and a line of Aiiya katcinas 

 extended the whole length of the plaza. The latter served as chorus, 

 while the gii'Is gi'ound meal, as in a kiva performance the night 

 before. 



In this exhibition or dance there were also two men personating 

 Hehea. whose actions were identical with those of the .same personations 

 in the kiva performance. They sat on the ground as the girls ground 

 the meal and the chorus sang. The personators in this dance were 

 from the chief kiva of Walpi, and the exhibition has the same 

 meaning as that of the night before. 



There also appeared in this public exhibition a masked personage 

 called Hopak (Eastern) katcina, the signitication of whose presence is 

 unknown to the author. 



TEKSONATIONS APPEARINCi IN PAI.ULUKONTI 



The following personations appear in Paliiliikoiiti: 



Woe (Eagle). Appears in kiva drama. 



Wupamau. Wanders through the pue1)los, aecoiiipatiied by a mudhead, 



who lassoes whomever he meets. 

 Honau (Bear). Appears m kiva drama. 

 Ahote. Wanders through the pueblo. 

 Citoto. Appears in public with other niaskeil men. 

 Tcanau. Appears with preceding. 

 Wukokoti. Appears with preceding. 

 Kwahu (Eagle). Appears in kiva drama. 

 Piiiikon (War god). Appears in kiva drama. 



