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which are two horns girt with aUeriuite white and bhick 

 bands, and bearing a tew corn husks at the top and base. 

 The cap is likewise girt with black and white bands and 

 both of the same colors are painted on their bodies, arms 

 and legs. 



They are Tewan members of the Tcu-ku-ivy'mp-ki-ya and 

 from their actions in dances may very properly be called 

 gluttons. The same personages have been photographed 

 by me in Wal-pi sacred dances, and I have a doll of a Pai- 

 a-kya-muh wliich has most of the symbolic marks men- 

 tioned above. As Tcu-ku-wy'mjy-ki-ya to which group of 

 priests the Ta-tcuk-ti likewise belong, these men very prop- 

 erly figure in the Wa-wac-ka-tci-nd. 



An]ong the many masks and helmets which one sees by 

 searching in the hidden rooms of the villages I have found 

 several which have been referred to the Wd-ivdc-kd-lci-nd, 

 and I suspect that from time to time other characters be- 

 sides those described also take part in the races which have 

 been described. One of the most characteristic of these 

 masks is said to be that of Bem-i-cow. The helmet of 

 Hem-i-cow which I observed in the Al-kib-va} at Wal-pi 

 is unlike any other with which I am familiar. It is of 

 cylindrical shape and painted black with green, yellow. 



1 The so-called kib-vas are subterranean chambers built in crevices in the rocks 

 and are used in the performance of the secret portions of religions ceremonials. 

 Of these there are five at Wal-pi, two in Sitciim-o-vi, and two in Tewa. The 

 A'l-kib-va is one of the smallest of these and is situated on the dance plaza at 

 Walpi. It is, however, one of the important kib-vas and in it are performed the 

 ceremonies of the Mdm-zrmi-ti (a woman dance in September, see Araer. Anthro- 

 pologist, July, 1892.) 



The kib-vas are ordinarily used as gathering places for the men and in them 

 many blankets are woven. Although it is not customary for the Indians not 

 engaged in any ceremony, to enter the kib-vas, we were always permitted free en- 

 trance, w.th one or two exceptions. I have given elsewhere an account of 

 the more impoitant architectural details of the kib-vas and their orientation, 

 and the Al-kib-va is not in any respects characteristic. The A'l kib-va\a the kib- 

 va of the Horn men or Horn priests, and in the Nadc-nai-yd it is the place of the 

 ceremonies of the warrior fraternities. 



