At 10 oclock 18 Tcakwaínakatcinas came to the Móñkiva from Hano.
They were naked, save a breechcloth, but their bodies and limbs were
ornamented with white zigzag markings. They wore fillets of a dozen or
more yucca bands around the head, and necklaces in profusion on their
necks. They passed in succession into the kivas, dancing a few minutes
in each, and returned home shortly before midnight.
_February 1_—Several tíhus (dolls) were carved in the kivas, to be
distributed to the children as in the Nimánkatcina. Tumac and her sons
went around the pueblo about half past 7 oclock, as on former evenings.
In the Tcivatokiva 14 men and a boy about 10 years of age, with
Pauwatíwa as chief, whitened their faces, bound a fillet around
their foreheads, and made curious crescentic marks on their cheeks.
They afterward danced and sang. Sitcomovi priests, beginning at the
Móñkiva, made formal visits to each kiva in Walpi. There were 12 of
these men and they were decorated like those of the Tcivatokiva. They
sang Síohúmiskatcina songs, but wore no masks. They later visited the
Sitcomovi kivas. The Tcivatokiva people then put on their kilts, tied
on their turtle-shell rattles, took their juniper staffs and gourd
rattles, and, led by Pauwatíwa, went to the Álkiva, and later to all
the other kivas, where they danced and sang Pawik (duck) Katcina songs.
Pauwatíwa sprinkled meal on the Katcinas from Sitcomovi before they
began, and the chiefs of the other kivas did the same to those who
visited them before they opened their dance.
_February 2_—This afternoon 8 girls, assisted by the men, washed the
walls of the Móñkiva with a thin mud made of valley sand. The following
girls took part in this work: Kaiyónsi, Humisi, Humíta, Lénho (a
woman), Leúnaisi, Tuvéwaisi, Hokwáti, and Hónka. The girls also made
mud designs, lightning symbols, and hand-prints on the rafters of the
room.
Tuñwúpkatcina[68] (personified by Takála) arrayed himself as follows:
He donned trousers made of cotton cloth and wrapped himself in a
blanket, under which he concealed all his paraphernalia. He received
two bunches of yucca with about twelve or fifteen leaves in each
bunch, and concealing them under his blanket hastened off to the
northeastern end of the village. There he arrayed himself, and at 5 p.
m. he returned, running back and hooting as he came, until he halted at
the court, where he kept trotting up and down, marking time. He wore
a mud-head helmet with a black band across the eyes, and parrakeet
feathers on the top of the head. Turkey-tail feathers were arranged
radiating horizontally from the crown to the back of the head. He wore
also a cotton shirt and a kilt girded with a white belt (wukókwena).
He had yellow clay on his legs and a tortoise-shell rattle below each
knee. His moccasins were painted black. A whip or bunch of yucca with
the butts in front was held in each hand.
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