FEWKEs] KATCINAS APl'KARINa IN PdWAMU i( 



ill the celebratiou of the Depiirture of the Kateiiuis. On the hist 

 morning of that festival he i.s accoDipanied by three other katcinas 

 who march around the kiva entrance, holding convertsation with the 

 chief below and receiving otferings, as has been described elsewhere." 



The god Eototo was introduced from the old pueblo, Sikyatki, and 

 his old mask or helmet is in the keeping of the descendants of the 

 Kokop family, which once inhabited that pueblo. The close similarity 

 in s\'ml3olic designs to Masauu. also a Sikyatki god, shows that the 

 two names are virtually dual appellations of the same mythological 

 conception, but that the}' originated in this pueblo is not yet proved. 



One of the most interesting personations of Masauu appeared in 

 Powamu in 1900, when a man represented this god in the live Walpi 

 kivas. He wore a helmet made of a large gourd, pierced with 

 openings for eyes and mouth and painted l)lack with micaceous hema- 

 tite sprinkled over them. He and a companion carried old-fashioned 

 planting sticks and imitated planting, while about twenty vxnmasked 

 men, representing a chorus called Maswik-' katcinas, some person- 

 ating males, others females, danced and sang about them. 



At the close of the personation in each kiva, the representative 

 of ^lasauu was loaded with prayer offerings. This archaic cere- 

 mony was regarded with great reverence and was shunned by all save 

 the initiated. 



(Plate XV) 



Kwahu, the Eagle katcina. is figured in the drawing with an eagle's 

 head above the helmet in a way that recalls an Aztec picture. The 

 characteristic symbolic marks of certain birds of prey, as the eagle 

 and hawk, are the chevron marks on the face, which are well shown in 

 this picture. 



In personations of this and other birds the wings are represented b\' 

 a .string of feathers tied to the arms, as shown in the picture. 



PALAKWAVO 



(Plate XV) 



The symbolism of Palalvwayo. the Red Hawk, is similar to that of 

 Tiirpockwa, but there is no bird's head above the helmet. The tigure 

 also has the moisture tablet on the back. In each of the outstretched 

 hands is carried a bell. 



<i Sec Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology, vol. ii. 1892. 

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