NOTE. 



The ceremoniology of the Hopi Indians is very comprehensive and extremely 

 complicated. A large number of performances have already been observed and 

 more or less fully described, especially by Dr. J. W. Fewkes of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, Washington, who has directed his studies, however, principally to the 

 ceremonies of the Hopi living on the East Mesa. Aside from the valuable publi- 

 cations by Dr. Fewkes on parts of certain ceremonies of the people of the Middle 

 Mesa, but very little is known about their rites and none of them have thus far 

 been studied and described. In Oraibi, on the West Mesa and the seventh of the 

 Hopi villages, a number of ceremonies have been observed and carefully studied 

 by Mr. H. R. Voth, during his five years' residence at that village as a missionary. 

 The Powamu ceremony is chosen for the second of this series of papers, partly 

 because it is one of the most important, complicated and interesting of those held 

 at Oraibi, and partly because the two altars and four sand mosaics belonging to 

 this ceremony have been reproduced and are now on exhibition in this Museum. 



GEORGE A. DORSEY, 

 Curator, Department of Anthropology. 



Chicago, December i, 1901. 



