Natacka Mana
The sister of the Natackas, called also Natacka mana and Soyok mana,[1] accompanies her brothers on their begging trip through the pueblos of the East mesa. Her picture represents a person with black mask and white chin, and her hair arranged in two whorls over the ears, as is customary with maidens. She has round, green eyes, a square mouth with red teeth, and a bears. On her back she carries a basket suspended by a band which passes across her forehead. In this basket she collects the meat and bread which the Natackas obtain from the different households. Her clothing is a woman's blanket, over which is thrown a buckskin, and she carries in one hand a large knife.
Hehea
(Plate XI)
Hehea katcina, like many others, may be personated without kilt or in complete dress. In the former case a sheepskin replacing an old-time buffalo skin is hung over the shoulder and phallic emblems are painted on arms, legs, and body. The mask is decorated with the zigzag marking on each cheek. In this form Hehea appears in certain kiva exercises at the ceremonial grinding of meal by the Aña katcina manas. We also find him associated with the Corn maids and with the Natackas. The phallic symbols are depicted on the bodies of the Wüwütcimtû and Tataukyamû in the New-fire ceremony, and there are other evidences which associate the former with Hehea.
A picture of this form of Hehea was drawn, but has not been reproduced. It represents a large and small Hehea, each with characteristic zigzag symbols on the face and with oblique eyes and mouth. Both have phallic symbols on the body and limbs, and wear artificial flowers on their heads.[2]
The body has a sheepskin covering stained black and leggings of the same material, which have replaced buffalo skins formerly used for the same purpose. Each carries a lariat, the use of which is explained in the account of the visits of the Natackas on their begging trips to different houses.
Another picture of Hehea, which also represents a primitive conception of this personage, has a kilt and the elaborate dress in which he sometimes appears in ceremonial public dances. It is reproduced in plate XI.
- ↑ This part is taken by a lad. For picture of the doll see Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, Band VII, pl. IX.
- ↑ Compare this artificial flower with that of the Wüwütcimtû society. The members of both this society and the Tataukyamû have similar phallic symbols painted on the body and limbs. For a picture of the doll, see Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, Band VII, pls. VII, VIII, figs 16, 18.
