(Figure 13). This humisk
achina da are made?
nce is the dance of the growing cor
n. On the evening before the actual dan
ce, I was inside the kiva, where
secret ceremonies take place. It co
ntained no fetish altar. The Indians s
imply sat and smoked ceremonially. Eve
ry now and then a p
air of brown le
gs descended from a hove on the ladder, followed by the whole man attached
men were bus
y painting their masks for t
he following day. They use thei
r big leather h
elmets again and again, a
s new ones would be too costly. The painting process involves taking water into the mouth and then spraying it onto the leather mask as the colors are rubbed in. By the following morning, the entire audience, including two groups of children, had assembled on the wall (Figure 14). The Indians' relationship to their children is extraordinarily appealing. Children are brought up gently but with discipline and are very obliging, once one has earned their trust. Now the children had assembled, with earnest anticipation, on the marketplace. These humiskachina figures with artificial heads move them to real terror, all the more so as they have learned from the kach