.895.] 451 [Fewkei. 
fructify all vegetation, animals, and women. The maids with the 
tablets were called Palahikomana, and the dance Paliktihe. 
The young man who wore the moistui-e or skin framework was 
also paralleled in 3famzrauti by the leader of the women, Tcatu- 
maka^ described on p. 238 op. cit. The skin tablets which both 
wore were called Pavaiokaci^ moisture tablets. 
The composition of the name Tcatumaka shows that the 
woman personified the mother of the tcatu, and the effigies of the 
mother of tcatii} or Tcatm/umatii are prominent fetishes on the 
altar (see Mamzrauti^ pi. 1, figs. 13, 15), This personage is a 
strange one in the Tusayan pantheon and itlooks as if she were a 
dread deity who afflicts women and must be propitiated. Hence 
her place on the altar and her importance in the Mamzrauti 
ceremony. 
The curious little wood lice tcatu are probably the key note of 
the Mamzrauti. They cause the plant upon the roots of which 
they live to wither and die, and a man not a member of the 
Mamzrauta will not knowingly have anything to do with them. 
I requested Mr. Stephen to procure some for me for identification, 
and a quotation from one of his letters shows his experiences : 
" I got a man, not belonging to the Mamzrau to show me an 
infected plant. I pulled -it up, and found a host of them at its 
roots — he identified them and I bottled a score for you. The 
next day this man came to me looking most eagerly anxious and 
asked %vliether I had sent you the tcatil. I repUed ' No.' ' O 
my brother,' he said, ' those I fear were not the true tcatil; give 
them to me that I may return them to their home in the simoapi ' 
( B. graveolens). So I gave them to him, and he thanked me 
fervently and showed me the nakwakwoci he had prepared, and 
we returned down to the valle}^, and he emptied the bottle back 
on the roots of the plant, cast prayer meal upon them, and prayed 
that they might not infest him or his family with sores. He had 
told some of the elders Avhat he had done and they straightway 
cautioned him to get the animals back from me and return them 
with prayer." 
I The tcat'A are smaii insects much feared and venerated which infest Bigclovia- 
graveolens. They are dreaded by the Indians as tlieir bites, it is thought, lead to 
many troubles, and Kopeli said that syphilis came from them. I have recorded what 
has been told me and leave it to the reader to draw his inferences, but it is certainly 
strange that ceremonials connected with germination and phallic rites give so 
prominent a place to the mother of tcatil, the syphilis insect. 
