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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  While 
  the 
  author 
  was 
  studying 
  the 
  rituals 
  of 
  the 
  Hopi 
  Indians 
  he 
  

   rented 
  a 
  room 
  in 
  Hano 
  in 
  which, 
  unbeknown 
  to 
  him, 
  the 
  serpent 
  

   effigies 
  were 
  kept. 
  At 
  one 
  end 
  of 
  this 
  room 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  raised 
  ban- 
  

   quette 
  admirably 
  adapted 
  for 
  a 
  sleeping 
  place, 
  and 
  upon 
  it 
  he 
  spread 
  

   his 
  sheepskins 
  and 
  blankets 
  and 
  for 
  months 
  slept 
  nightly 
  upon 
  it. 
  On 
  

   the 
  opening 
  night 
  of 
  the 
  March 
  drama, 
  when 
  the 
  time 
  came 
  to 
  pro- 
  

   cure 
  the 
  serpent 
  effigies, 
  a 
  procession, 
  headed 
  by 
  the 
  chief, 
  went 
  to 
  

   the 
  room 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  and 
  the 
  priests 
  began 
  to 
  scrape 
  away 
  

   the 
  clay 
  on 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  bench 
  and 
  brought 
  to 
  light 
  four 
  vases 
  covered 
  

   with 
  a 
  circular 
  stone 
  covering. 
  In 
  the 
  vases 
  were 
  kept 
  the 
  serpent 
  

   effigies, 
  and 
  unknowingly 
  the 
  author 
  had 
  slept 
  on 
  snake 
  idols 
  for 
  sev- 
  

   eral 
  months 
  without 
  harm. 
  Having 
  procured 
  the 
  serpent 
  effigies, 
  the 
  

   priests 
  carried 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  Sun 
  spring 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the 
  mesa 
  and 
  

   several 
  weird 
  rites, 
  as 
  yet 
  never 
  described, 
  were 
  performed 
  about 
  

   them. 
  Formerly 
  the 
  idols 
  of 
  the 
  horned 
  serpent 
  were 
  kept 
  in 
  a 
  cave 
  

   some 
  distance 
  north 
  of 
  Hano, 
  but 
  that 
  shrine 
  was 
  abandoned 
  on 
  

  

  Fia. 
  1. 
  — 
  Side 
  and 
  front 
  views 
  of 
  Plumed 
  Serpent 
  idol. 
  Far 
  View 
  House, 
  Mesa 
  Verde 
  

  

  National 
  Park. 
  

  

  account 
  of 
  its 
  exposure 
  to 
  persons 
  of 
  vandalistic 
  tendencies. 
  It 
  is 
  

   instructive 
  to 
  note 
  that 
  when 
  a 
  shrine 
  has 
  once 
  been 
  used 
  as 
  the 
  

   receptacle 
  for 
  an 
  idol 
  and 
  the 
  idol 
  removed, 
  the 
  priests 
  do 
  not 
  neglect 
  

   to 
  say 
  their 
  prayers 
  at 
  the 
  ancestral 
  place. 
  This 
  feeling 
  appears 
  

   in 
  another 
  form 
  when 
  ancestral 
  springs 
  are 
  visited 
  for 
  sacred 
  water 
  

   for 
  ceremonials. 
  For 
  instance, 
  in 
  the 
  snake 
  dance 
  priests 
  go 
  to 
  old 
  

   springs 
  in 
  the 
  north 
  for 
  sacred 
  water 
  because 
  when 
  they 
  lived 
  in 
  the 
  

   cliffs 
  the 
  adjacent 
  springs 
  Avere 
  used 
  by 
  them 
  for 
  sacred 
  purposes. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  excavation 
  of 
  Mesa 
  Verde 
  ruins 
  last 
  year 
  (1922) 
  

   stone 
  idols 
  of 
  animals 
  were 
  discovered 
  in 
  shrines 
  near 
  Pipe 
  Shrine 
  

   House. 
  These 
  are 
  crude 
  images 
  and 
  considerably 
  broken, 
  but 
  they 
  

   are 
  not 
  unlike 
  modern 
  counterparts. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  largest, 
  the 
  torso 
  

   of 
  the 
  mountain 
  lion 
  7 
  above 
  mentioned, 
  found 
  in 
  an 
  inclosure 
  south 
  

   of 
  Pipe 
  Shrine 
  House, 
  was 
  left 
  in 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  south 
  shrine 
  of 
  this 
  

   remarkable 
  building. 
  The 
  head 
  of 
  an 
  idol 
  recalling 
  the 
  Great 
  Ser- 
  

   pent 
  (pi. 
  2, 
  fig. 
  4), 
  likewise 
  broken, 
  was 
  discovered 
  at 
  this 
  ruin. 
  

   Although 
  attached 
  feathers 
  were 
  absent, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  groove 
  around 
  

   the 
  neck 
  of 
  this 
  idol 
  where 
  feathered 
  strings 
  were 
  probably 
  once 
  tied. 
  

  

  7 
  At 
  Walpi, 
  Hopi 
  women 
  sometimes 
  wear 
  a 
  small 
  stone 
  fetish 
  of 
  a 
  mountain 
  lion 
  

   attached 
  to 
  their 
  belt. 
  

  

  