6lO FEWKES 



ing the gourd trumpet by which the ' roars ' of the great ser- 

 pents are imitated. 



Prominent among the designs painted on this screen are three 

 human figures. That of a man has two horns on the head like 

 an Alosaka'^ and, as so often occurs in pictures or images on 

 ahars, the maidens have their hair arranged in disks one above 

 each ear, as in the Hopi maid's coiffure of the present day. 

 These maidens were called Tubeboli manas. The other de- 

 signs represent birds, lightning, rain clouds, and falling rain. 

 The first act was performed by men of the kiva which is sit- 

 uated in the middle of the Hano plaza^, and the screen and 

 snake effigies are owned by men of that pueblo. The screen 

 was repainted on the day of the dramatization by the men who 

 took part in the act. No actor tasted food on that day before 

 the decoration of the screen was finished, and at the close of 

 their work all vomited over the cliffs. This Hano screen, and 

 the drama acted before it, resembles those which are occasionally 

 used in the chief kiva of Walpi. 



Second Act. 



The second act, a buffalo dance, was one of the best on this 

 eventful night. Several men wearing helmets representing 

 buffalo heads, with lateral horns and shaggy sheep skins, and 

 wool painted black, hanging down their backs, entered the 

 room. They carried zigzag slats of wood, symbolic of light- 

 ning, and performed a characteristic dance to the beat of a 

 drum. These buffalo personificators were accompanied by a 

 masked man and boy representing eagles, who danced before 

 them, uttering calls in imitation of birds. 



The same buffalo dance, but more complicated, was cele- 

 brated earlier in the winter in the public plaza of Walpi, at 

 which time the men were accompanied by girls dressed as buf- 

 falo maids who did not appear in the second act in the kivas. 

 No representation of the eagles was seen in this public dance. 



The buffalo maids bore disks decorated with sun emblems on 

 their l:)acks, and carried notched sticks representing ' sun lad- 



' One of the prominent 'gods ' in Hopi worship. 

 ^Called the kisombi kiva, plaza kiva. 



