The secret ceremonials in the kiva were as follows: The three priests,
who had previously bathed their heads in their own houses, made the
páhos and nakwákwocis. Two of these men made four prayer sticks similar
to those described in the Walpi ceremonial, and one made a long single
páho. These were deposited in a flat basket tray and smoked upon by
those present. Before beginning the manufacture of the páhos the makers
prepared themselves by a ceremonial smoke.[107] At the same time that
the páhos were made twenty-three nakwákwocis for the Katcinas and five
for the Katcinamanas were likewise manufactured.
[Illustration: FIG. 44—Mask of Pawíkkatcina (side view).]
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HEAD DRESS OF ALOSAKA.]
At midday food was passed down into the kiva, but before partaking of
it one of the priests took a pinch of each kind of food (dunópna) and
went with it to a cleft in the mesa on the north side of Sitcomovi. He
there deposited it with a páho, a pinch of each kind of pigment used in
painting the paraphernalia, a little tobacco,[108] but no sacred meal.
This was an offering, it was said, to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
sípapû. He then went to the southern side of the mesa and placed in a
similar cleft a nakwákwoci, said to be an offering to Másauwûh.
[Illustration: FIG. 45—Mask of Pawíkkatcinamana.]
[Illustration: FIG. 46—Staff of Pawíkkatcina.]
At sunrise on the 29th two offerings were deposited, and each of the
twenty-three Katcinas placed his nakwákwoci in a shrine.
Ceremonials attending visits of people from adjacent or remote
pueblos are simple but interesting. The following reception ceremony
of visitors from a distant pueblo not of their own people was noted:
In the progress of the summer dances of Walpi in 1892 I observed the
ceremonial reception of several Zuñis who came over to assist in the
Húmiskatcina. They were formally “received” in the Wikwaliobi kiva by
Íntiwa,[109] Kópeli, Hóñyi, Pauatíwa, and Lésma. Íntiwa gave their
headman a twig of spruce, to which Lésma tied four nakwákwocis.[110]
Íntiwa sprinkled it with sacred meal and laid it in front of the
Zuñis, and finally all smoked together. This was said to be a formal
act of reception.[111]
The reception ceremony of the Pawíkkatcinas when they returned from
Cipaulovi was as follows: At 4 p. m. Pauatíwa’s father, a very old man,
sat on the edge of the mesa looking west and north toward Cipaulovi. He
called my attention to a line of men coming along the trail. When the
line halted on the last rise before the trail ascends to the top of the
mesa we went down to welcome them.
[Illustration: FIG. 47—Helmets, ear of corn, and spruce bough arranged
for reception ceremony.]
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