Kumbi Natacka
(Plate IX)
The black Natacka has a black mask with goggle eyes and with a green arrowhead on the forehead. It has two horns, one of which the artist has represented, and a crest of conventional eagle wing feathers rising from a bunch of black feathers on the back of the head. A fox skin hangs about the neck. Kumbi Natacka wears a buckskin garment over a calico shirt, and carries a saw in one hand, a hatchet in the other. The black objects hanging over the shoulder are locks of hair, from which depend eagle tail feathers.
The small figure accompanying Kumbi Natacka represents a Hehea katcina, two or more of which go with the Natackas in their begging trip through the pueblos. The body is covered with phallic symbols, and a lasso is carried in the right hand. The leggings are of sheepskin stained black. The face has the characteristic zigzag symbols of Hehea.[1]
Kutca Natacka
(Plate IX)
The white Natacka resembles the black, save that the mask is white instead of black. He also carries a saw in his right hand, and a yucca whip in his left. In the personations of this Natacka the men, as a rule, carry bows and arrows in their left hands.
There are also Natackas of other colors which the artist has not figured.
Natacka Wüqti, or Soyok Wüqti
(Plate X)
Soyok wüqti[2] has a large black mask with great yellow goggle eyes, and red beard and hair, in which is tied a red feather, symbol of death and war. She carries in one hand a crook to which several shell rattles (mosilili) are attached, and in the other a huge knife. She is much feared by the little children, who shudder as she passes through the pueblos and halts to threaten with death those she meets. She appears at Powamû at about the same time as the Natackas, but does not accompany them.
The episode illustrated by the figure shows an interview of the Soyok woman and a lad who is crying with fright. The woman has demanded food of the boy, and he offers a rat on the end of a stick. The bogy shakes her head, demanding a jack rabbit which the boy carries in his right hand.
