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a song. He was masked and wrapped in a rabbit-skin rug, 

 and went to all the kivas, beating the entrances with a bush " 

 {Bigxlovia graveolens). 



On the day following the night exhibitions in 1893 there were 

 public dances of the Tacab and Ana Katcinas. 



PARAPHERNALIA USED, THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND SYMBOLISM. 



The effigies of Paliililhon now used at the East Mesa are not 

 very ancient, although there are one or two which show consid- 

 erable antiquity. One of these older specimens has a body of 

 buckskin, but the majority, and all the recent ones, are made 

 of cotton cloth. The present screens are of the latter material, 

 but these are commonly said to have replaced others of skin or 

 native cloth. The Walpi men made two new serpent effigies 

 in their kivas in 1900, and all the material of which they were 

 manufactured was purchased from the neighboring trader at 

 Keam's Canyon. 



Each of the three pueblos, Hano, Sitcomovi, and Walpi, has 

 several of these serpent effigies which are kept in the houses of 

 he following clans : 



Hano, Sa (Tobacco) clan ; Sitcomovi, Patki (Raincloud) 

 clan; Walpi, 7V?/« (Snake) clan ; /^(3;/'<2r3 (Reed) clan. 



In ancient times they were kept in stone enclosures outside 

 the pueblos, but these receptacles have been abandoned of late, 

 on account of the inroads of nomads.^ The house of the ancient 

 Plumed Snake of Hano is a small cave in the side of the mesa 

 near the ruin Turkinobi, where several broken serpent heads 

 and effigy ribs, or wooden hoops, can now be seen, although 

 the entrance is walled up and rarely opened. 



A knowledge of the mechanical construction of the serpent 

 effigies may aid in an understanding of their manipulation. 

 Their heads are either cut out of Cottonwood or made of gourds, 

 and are painted, and the protuberant goggle eyes are small 

 buckskin bags tied to the top. Each head bears a medial horn 

 curving forward, sometimes made with joints and at other times 



^It is said that the Oraibi or Middle Mesa pueblos still have extramural recep- 

 tacles for the Palulitkoh effigies. 



Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., December 1900. 



